The intensity of their insistence on Ukraine’s innocence is unusual, the Russian foreign minister has said
The US and the EU are downright obsessive in insisting on Ukraine’s innocence in the Crocus City Hall massacre, to the point of such behavior being a little suspicious, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview published on Friday.
The terrorist group “Islamic State Khorasan” (ISIS-K) took responsibility for last Friday’s terrorist attack in which 143 Russians were killed and over 200 ended up in hospital with injuries. Washington and Brussels immediately declared that ISIS-K was the sole culprit and no evidence whatsoever pointed to Kiev.
“The West is actively trying to convince everyone that this is the work of ISIS and there is no longer any need to suspect anyone, especially Ukraine,” Lavrov told Izvestiya in a video interview published on Friday. “They keep insisting that Kiev is not to blame, to the point where it’s becoming obsessive.”
Lavrov pointed out that four suspected gunmen were attempting to flee to Ukraine when they were caught by Russian security forces.
“We have repeatedly said that we do not make any final conclusions until the investigation is completed. The investigation is still working on the facts, new circumstances are being revealed, but we simply do not have the right to exclude obvious possibilities,” the foreign minister said.
Meanwhile, Lavrov said, the West is “suspiciously active” in trying to persuade everyone that Ukraine had nothing to do with the attack.
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