https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...points-finger-help-ukraine-11-terroristsEleven people total have been detained connected with the terror attack which the Federal Security Service (FSB) has said includes "four terrorists who were directly involved in the terrorist attack on Crocus." They are not Russian nationals, security services said.
After the Friday night rampage at the venue just outside Moscow, "the perpetrators tried to escape by car, fleeing towards the Russian-
Ukrainian border," the FSB said Saturday
"The criminals intended to cross the Russia-Ukraine border and had relevant contacts on the Ukrainian side," the FSB statement alleged.
The four alleged gunmen were detained
"not far from the border with Ukraine". This has raised suspicion in the Kremlin over
Ukraine's involvement, despite the widespread media reports in the West that it was ISIS-K. As we noted earlier, Russian media has not echoed the Western reports highlighting an ISIS-K statement of responsibility.
Instead, in addressing the crisis President Vladimir Putin has vowed to punish the perpetrators of the barbaric terrorist act while also
charging that Ukraine prepared a "window" to help the terrorists escape.
At one point during the five-and-a-half minute video address, Putin said: "All perpetrators, organizers and customers of this crime will suffer fair and inevitable punishment. Whoever they are, whoever guides them. I repeat, we will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists,
who prepared this atrocity, this attack on Russia, on our people."
He continued while pointing the finger at
Ukraine: "All four direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack, all those who shot and killed people, were found and detained.
They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data,
a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the state border. A total of 11 people were detained."
Putin then added: "The Federal Security Service of Russia and other law enforcement agencies are working to identify and uncover the entire accomplice base of terrorists: those who provided them with transport, outlined escape routes from the crime scene, prepared caches, caches of weapons and ammunition."
"The main goal now is to prevent those who are behind this bloodbath from committing new crimes," the Russian leader stressed.