SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS — Together with expressions of sympathy for the victims and pledges to deliver the perpetrators to justice, Russia’s response to Friday’s lethal assault on a live performance corridor has been an across-the-board marketing campaign of disinformation. The Kremlin and its surrogates spent the weekend suggesting – with no proof – that Ukrainians or People, or each, have been in charge for the worst terrorist assault in Russia in 20 years.
As quickly as Saturday morning, sure details had emerged in regards to the raid on the Crocus Live performance Corridor on Moscow’s outskirts: At the least 137 folks have been useless and greater than 150 others injured; gunmen had stormed the sector, shot at concertgoers, and set hearth to the primary constructing; the terrorist group ISK (Islamic State Khorasan) had claimed duty – a declare U.S. intelligence stated was professional – and the group launched movies taken by its operatives through the assault.
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