There is no evidence - US Vice President Harris responds to putin's accusations that Ukraine was involved in the terrorist attack in moscow

Kamala Harris
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US Vice President Kamala Harris has rejected russian President vladimir putin's claims that Ukraine may have been involved in the terrorist attack on the moscow shopping center Crocus City Hall

This was written by espreso.tv

The US government and Western allies have said that ISIS is responsible for the attack in moscow.

"No, there is no evidence (of Ukraine's involvement - ed.)," Harris said. - "In fact, we know that by all indications, ISIS is responsible for what happened."

According to putin's statement, the four detained militants were planning to flee to Ukraine. However, Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied the country's involvement in the attack.

Harris also expressed condolences to the families of those killed in the attack.

"What happened as a result of the terrorist attack and the number of victims is certainly a tragedy, and we all have to express our condolences to the families of the victims," she said.
Crocus City Hall terrorist attack: what's known

During a concert at the Crocus City Hall shopping center near moscow on Friday, March 22, unknown gunmen in camouflage opened fire: more than 130 people were killed and a large number of injured. The FSB says it has allegedly detained the suspects.

The Main Intelligence Directorate is convinced that the shooting in the moscow Crocus shopping center was a deliberate provocation by the putin regime, and the Foreign Ministry said that the world should strongly reject russia's false accusations of Ukraine's alleged involvement. The White House also rejected Ukraine's involvement.

The commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, Dmytro Yarosh, also said that the Ukrainian Defense Forces had no involvement in the shooting in the moscow shopping center Crocus.

On March 23, putin made an address on the terrorist attack. According to the russian dictator, Ukraine was "preparing a window" to receive the terrorists who staged the attack in the moscow region.

A representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Andriy Yusov, called putin's statement absolutely false and absurd.

After the attack, the head of the United russia faction, Vladimir Vasiliev, said that the state duma would consider and "deeply study" the issue of returning the death penalty.

On the evening of March 23, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy reacted for the first time to the terrorist attack near moscow. According to him, "putin and other scum are just trying to shift the responsibility to someone else."

Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believe that the Islamic State terrorist group was involved in the attack on Crocus City Hall in the moscow region.

The US National Security Council (NSC) on Sunday, March 24, unequivocally rejected russia's attempts to accuse Ukraine of organizing the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall shopping mall near moscow.

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