2024-03-23 09:08:56
In March, the United States shared information with Russian authorities about a terrorist attack being planned in Moscow. This statement was made by the head of the press service of the White House National Security Council, Adrienne Watson, on Friday, the agency reports, Day.Az reports with reference to TASSReuters.
“Earlier this month, the US government received information about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow that could target mass gatherings. [людей]including concerts, resulting in the State Department issuing a public warning to Americans in Russia,” the agency quoted a White House spokesman as saying. “The U.S. government also shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its long-standing policy of ‘mandatory warning,'” the statement said. Watson.
CNN television previously reported, citing sources, that US intelligence warned Russia that the terrorist group “Islamic State” (banned in the Russian Federation) plans to carry out terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation. According to their information, such information has been received since November 2023, but it is unclear whether it became the basis for the publication by the US Embassy in Moscow of a warning about a terrorist threat on March 7. The American administration has not yet responded to TASS’s request to comment on the media data.
In turn, John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, told Fox News that he cannot yet say to what extent the warning from the US Embassy and the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack are related. According to him, the American side “had some concerns about the possibility of a terrorist attack in Moscow and its environs earlier this month.”
Let us note that yesterday unknown persons started shooting from machine guns at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. The incident occurred before the start of the concert of the Picnic group.
60 people were killed and more than 140 injured as a result of the shooting at Crocus City Hall.
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