Putin continues to link the Moscow concert attack to Ukraine, despite ISIS-K claiming responsibility ...
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00:00Putin continues to link the Moscow concert attack to Ukraine, despite ISIS-K claiming responsibility.
00:06I'll explain.
00:07On Monday, the Kremlin still refused to comment on the extremist group's claim that they orchestrated the Moscow attack.
00:14Despite the terrorist group's claim, the Russian authorities persist on not addressing it, preferring to turn their attention to Ukraine.
00:23Russia has detained four suspected gunmen and other suspects connected to the attack at a Moscow concert hall, which killed more than 130 people on Friday.
00:31Shortly after Friday's attack, the terror group ISIS-K took responsibility for the attack in a short statement published by ISIS-affiliated news agency EMAC on Telegram.
00:42However, President Vladimir Putin ignored these claims and is still linking the attack to Ukraine.
00:47On Saturday, Putin made a televised announcement addressing the attack and tied a link to Ukraine, saying the gunmen
01:03Ukraine strongly denied any involvement in Friday's assault.
01:07President Zelensky, in a televised address, said Putin was trying to
01:11Ukraine is accusing Putin and other Russian politicians of falsely linking Ukraine to the assault to stoke fervor for Russia's war in Ukraine, which recently entered its third year.
01:23A senior White House security source told The Telegraph,
01:27Putin's desperation to put all of this on Ukraine is unsurprising, as he tries to further dupe the Russian people whilst pretending that there is no dissent within Russia.
01:37A U.S. official said Friday that Washington had no reason to doubt ISIS's claim that it was responsible for the latest attack.
01:44The U.S. had even warned Russia about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow from an extremist group months before the attack.
01:50Putin had blasted the American warnings as, quote,
02:00So what does this mean for Ukraine?
02:02Experts worry Putin might strike Ukraine harder with a strong, ill-placed vengeance, sending more foot soldiers to Ukraine and amplifying his attack.