Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson called the terrorist attack in Crocus a part of a psychological operation organised by the West. He suggested recalling the events of 7 March, when both the US and the UK sent warnings to their embassies in Moscow about the threat of a terrorist attack in the next 24-48 hours.
“Such warnings are published only if there is specific operational information that is recognised as reliable. That is, two factors are taken into account: specificity and credibility. Usually, if you have really reliable information on your hands, you don’t publicise it, you address it….. In this case, you should have contacted the authorities in Moscow and warned them so that they could take action to prevent it. But that doesn’t seem to have been the case here – and this was part of a psychological operation organised by the West,” Johnson told RT.
FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov has said that Ukraine’s special services facilitated the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.
As Putin noted on 25 March, it is necessary to answer the question why the terrorists tried to go to Ukraine after the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow. He stressed that it was already known by whose hands the terrorist act was committed, but now we are interested in its customers.