Ukraine has denied through Zelensky’s advisor, Mijailo Podoliak, any involvement in the massacre that has claimed dozens of lives in the Russian capital. Even its military intelligence (GUR) has attributed the events to an “operation planned by the Kremlin’s special services” with the aim of “discrediting Ukraine and the entire free world.” The US assures that “there are no indications” of Ukrainian participation in the attack.

“Of course, we are talking about a special operation of the Kremlin’s secret services against its own citizens,” GUR spokesman Andri Yusov said, quoted by the Ukrainian news agency Unian. In a message published on its social networks, the GUR assured that the attack is another “pretext” to intensify Russian military aggression against Ukraine and to justify a new military mobilization within Russia.

According to the GUR, the fact that a group of people with assault rifles could move “freely” through Moscow would prove, “along with other irrefutable evidence” that the massacre was organized by Russian espionage.

“Of course Ukraine has nothing to do with the shooting or the explosions”Podoliak has written on his social networks, adding that “Ukraine has never resorted to terrorist methods” to combat Russia, and has stated that it has been “Russia itself” that on other occasions “has attacked its own citizens.” to initiate ‘anti-terrorist actions’ against protesting ethnic groups.

Likewise, Podoliak has shown convinced that “the events” that are taking place in Moscow “will contribute to an abrupt increase in military propaganda, accelerated militarization, the expansion of military mobilization” in Russia and “an escalation” of military aggression against Ukraine. The Ukrainian presidential advisor has also predicted that the massacre will be used by the Kremlin to “justify the manifestly genocidal attacks against the civilian population of Ukraine.”

The United States has stated, after learning what happened in the Russian capital, that there are no indications that Ukraine participated in the “horrible” attack. One of the White House spokespersons, John Kirby, did so in a press conference, explaining that the United States is still collecting information about the event, but that “At the moment there is no indication that Ukraine or Ukrainian citizens are involved.” “At this point I would rule out any connection with Ukraine,” Kirby stressed. The spokesperson has also conveyed his condolences to the victims of the attack and has considered that the images of the event are “really horrible and difficult to see.”

A week before the Russian presidential elections on March 15-17, several Western embassies, including the United States, warned of possible terrorist attacks in Russia. Specifically, the US embassy in Russia had asked US citizens on March 7 to avoid large events in Moscow, such as concerts, because there was information that “extremists” were planning some type of attack. Asked about this, Kirby has assured that Washington does not had prior knowledge of the shooting which occurred this Friday.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has called on the international community to condemn the attack perpetrated by several armed individuals just before a rock concert in the city of Krasnogorsk, on the outskirts of the Russian capital. The Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced the death of dozens of people, while more than a hundred have been injured. In videos posted on Telegram by concert attendees, several bodies can be seen inside the Crocus City Hall shopping center.