The Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushevassured this Tuesday that Ukraine is involved in last Friday’s attack on a concert hall in Moscow, where four armed men broke into the building and killed nearly 140 people.

Questioned by the press about whether Ukraine or the Islamic State was responsible for the attack, the ‘number three’ of the Security Council responded forcefully: “Ukraine of course“, according to the Russian news agency TASS.

Patrushev, who heads the Security Council second only to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin and the vice president of the organization, Dimitri Medvedevhas not provided more information or argued his response.

The Secretary of the Security Council is a staunch defender of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has gone so far as to ensure that Russia is not at warbut rather the conflict is rather an attempt by the West to antagonize Moscow and Kyiv.

These statements by Patrushev come less than 24 hours after Putin himself acknowledged that the attack It had been the work of “radical Islamists”, but also insisted on his theory that Ukraine could be related to the attack. “We’re interested in knowing who the customer is,” he said.

A concert hall located on the outskirts of Moscow was the scene of a terrorist attack perpetrated by four armed individuals on Friday that claimed the lives of at least 139 people, according to the latest balance confirmed by the Russian authorities. In total, eleven people were arrested for their involvement in this attack.

Ukraine responds to Russia and accuses it of “chronic lying”

Ukraine has described as “chronic lying“the daily Russian accusations of Kyiv’s alleged involvement in the Islamist attack.”One more time. This is already chronic. “There are irrefutable facts, common understanding (in different countries) of the causes and consequences, complete disbelief even on the part of neutral countries in the ‘Ukrainian trace’ in the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall,” wrote Ukrainian presidential advisor Mikhailo Podoliak in the social network X.

He stressed that, after the “lie” the day before by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who in a way “obsessive and compulsive” tries to create the idea that Ukraine is behind the attack claimed by the Islamic State, now it is the turn of the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, and the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexandr Bórtnikov.