Alexander Bortnikov, director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and chairman of the National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC), reported yesterday that Russian special services have implicated Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency in the March terrorist attack on a concert hall outside Moscow. “Ukrainian and Western special services have been recruiting increasingly more perpetrators for heinous attacks in Russia…. We, for one, have exposed the role of the Ukrainian military intelligence in the Crocus City Hall attack near Moscow,” Bortnikov said in a video address released by the NAC, reported TASS.
Furthermore, he charged that Ukraine, with the support of NATO countries, is stepping up its efforts to commit terrorist attacks and sabotage on Russian territory. “In his speech, the chairman of the NAC noted that the enemy, with the support of the United States and other NATO countries, is stepping up efforts to commit terrorist attacks and sabotage on the Russian territory, trying to weaken the resource support of the Russian army and provoke panic among the population. Attempts of neo-Nazi armed formations and sabotage and reconnaissance groups to penetrate into the regions bordering Ukraine continue. They search for and recruit perpetrators of high-profile crimes, including among labor migrants,” the NAC reported.
