As to the Russian Federal Security Service, several attackers opened fire on a Moscow performance hall today.
The worst event to hit the nation in some years, according to the Associated Press, is being investigated by officials as possible terrorism.
Unclaimed Attack
Videos and images from the incident depict Crocus City Hall on fire, and local authorities. The incident in Krasnogorsk, a suburb on the northwest outskirts of Moscow, was not immediately claimed as being the work of any particular group, and the attackers remain at large.
Russian officials said that the hall was attacked by several people who threw bombs at it and opened fire.
In case Ukraine or any of its residents were engaged in the attack, Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of Russia and current deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, declared that the attackers must be tracked down and killed without mercy, including officials of the state that committed such outrage.
Any such relationship has already been refuted by Ukraine. claimed that the roof was going to collapse. The 6,000-seat arena was holding a concert by the well-known Russian rock group Piknik, and they also reported that over 100 people had been evacuated from it. The band members were unharmed, according to news agency Tass.
There are connections between western acts and Crocus City Hall. The Miss Universe pageant was hosted there by Donald Trump in 2013. Dua Lipa, Sia, and Eric Clapton have all performed there.
Events all throughout Russia have been canceled by the ministry of culture.
The attack occurred a few days after Russian President Vladimir Putin tightened his grip on power following an election that some said was rigged.
The incident in Krasnogorsk, a suburb on the northwest outskirts of Moscow, was not immediately claimed as being the work of any particular group, and the attackers remain at large.
According to Russian officials, multiple attackers attacked the hall with gunshots and tossed explosives, setting it on fire.
In case Ukraine or any of its residents were engaged in the attack, Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of Russia and current deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, declared that the attackers “must be tracked down and killed without mercy, including officials of the state that committed such outrage.” Any such relationship has already been refuted by Ukraine.
According to John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House, “the images are just horrible and hard to watch.” Naturally, the victims of this horrendous gun act will be in our thoughts.
He went on to say that there was “no indication at this time that this shooting involved Ukraine or Ukrainians.”
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Moscow Incident Draws Alarming Parallels
The incident is reminiscent of the 2002 Moscow attack at the Dubrovka Theater, where a gang of persons, allegedly commanded by Russian officials, identified as Chechen terrorists took about 850 hostages and murdered about 170 people.
In the end, it was said that up to 50 assailants and over 100 hostages perished when Russian officials poisoned the hall’s ventilation system with a chemical agent. At the time, the BBC claimed that many people perished from gas poisoning and others from gunshot wounds.
Numerous unresolved issues surrounding the 2002 incident have been raised by some, who speculate that the Russian government may have orchestrated the crime in order to legitimize the conflict in Chechnya.
Among them was Russian dissident agent Alexander Litvinenko of the Federal Security Service (FSB), who passed away in 2006 in London following polonium-210 poisoning. A public investigation conducted in the United Kingdom subsequently revealed that Litvinenko was killed by two men, one of whom had previously served in Russia’s Federal Protective Service. It was also likely that Putin had given the go-ahead for these men to act with consent from the FSB, which replaced the KGB.
The St. Petersburg metro explosion, which killed at least 15 people and injured 45, occurred nearly six years before Friday’s incident.
The Bataclan concert theater in Paris was overtaken by Islamic terrorists in November 2015, as part of a coordinated attack across the city. Ninety people were killed at the venue, and another forty died that evening in and around the French capital.
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