Zelenskyy: Putin and other bastards trying to blame terrorist attack on someone else

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — Saturday, 23 March 2024, 21:42

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin "and other scum" are trying to "blame someone else" for the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall near Moscow.

Source: President Zelenskyy’s video address

Quote: "What happened yesterday in Moscow is obviously something that Putin and other bastards are just trying to blame on someone else. They always have the same methods. This has happened before. There have been bombed houses, shootings and explosions. And they always blame others.

They came to Ukraine, they are burning down our cities – and still trying to blame Ukraine. They torture and rape our people – again, they blame them. They have brought hundreds of thousands of their own terrorists here, to Ukrainian soil, to fight against us, and they don't care what happens inside their own country. Yesterday, all this happened, and this absolute nobody, Putin, instead of dealing with his Russian citizens, addressing them, was silent for a day – he was thinking about how to drag Ukraine into this. Everything is absolutely predictable.

The hundreds of thousands of Russians who are now being killed on Ukrainian soil would definitely be enough to stop any terrorists. And if Russians are ready to die in silence in 'crocuses' and not ask any questions of their special services, then Putin will try to turn more than one such situation to the benefit of his personal power ("crocuses" is clearly Zelenskyy's reference to Crocus City Hall – ed.)"

Background:

A shooting incident occurred at a concert by the band Piknik at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, on the evening of 22 March. According to the latest data, 133 people were killed, and 140 people were injured.
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) stated that the terrorist attack was a deliberate provocation by Putin’s regime that had been anticipated by the international community. Mykhailo Podoliak, advisor to the Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, stated that Ukraine has nothing to do with the attack. The White House said it saw no evidence of any Ukrainian involvement in the attack.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed that a "back door" had been prepared for the suspects in the attack to cross the border with Ukraine. Ukraine's Defence Intelligence responded by saying that these claims are entirely devoid of truth.
The United States has no doubt that ISIS was involved in the terrorist attack on a concert in the suburbs of Moscow on the evening of 22 March and had warned Russia in advance of the threat of such a terrorist attack.
ISIS called the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall in Moscow Oblast their "most brutal attack in recent years" and posted photos of the terrorists. Their clothing matches that of the detainees whose photos were posted by the FSB.