Russia is raising issues of retaliation for terrorism on its territory, Russian media reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a video message to participants in an international meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues:
“Russia’s special services and law enforcement agencies continue to find out, study all the details of this despicable crime, identify its participants, including the orderers, sponsors, organisers. None of them should escape just retribution.”
Putin said Russia is ready to co-operate with all interested countries in the field of global and regional security. He also called on the world community to create unified legal norms for the behaviour of states in the information sphere.
Russian media, citing Federal Financial Monitoring Service, reported that the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall near Moscow was carefully planned and realised by an international network of accomplices.
At the same time, Russia continues to indict Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, in the case of Burisma. The Russian Investigative Committee said that money that flowed through the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings over the past few years was used to finance terrorist acts in Russia and abroad.
Earlier, separate investigators pointed to a distinct US and NATO trail in planning the operation to destroy Nord Streams, as the US leadership has repeatedly stated its intention to destroy Nord Streams.
Russian media also claim that in order to carry out the “false flag operation”, a Ukrainian group of saboteurs was created under the leadership of Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry’s HUR, and the group’s direct leader was the intelligence officer Roman Chervinsky.
Russian Prosecutor-General Igor Krasnov has said on Wednesday that since September 2022, 271 cases against 399 Ukrainian militants have been tried in courts. Krasnov added that the courts had heard cases against members of the AFU units, the Azov brigade and the Aidar national battalion. 43 people were sentenced to life imprisonment, the prosecutor-general said during a report to the Federation Council.
