PARIS, March 26 — Russian President Vladimir Putin is refusing to blame the Islamic State (IS) for the Moscow attack despite a claim by the extremist group, instead insinuating a...
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In his latest comments on the attack yesterday, Putin acknowledged that “radical Islamists” had carried out the attack but made a link with Ukraine, over two years into Moscow’s invasion of its neighbour. French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday warned Moscow against any “exploitation” of the attack, saying it would be “cynical and counterproductive for Russia to use this context to try and turn it against Ukraine”.He said it was a branch of Islamic State that “planned the attack and carried it out”, adding this outfit had also plotted attacks in France.
Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of R.Politik consultancy, described Putin’s link to Ukraine as “cautious”, arguing that if there had been any evidence of such a role reactions would have been even more explicit. After Putin’s latest comments, Stanovaya wrote on Telegram that it appeared Putin was carefully using the conditional in his language and “does not yet have evidence of the involvement of either the US or Ukraine.”Meanwhile, the failure to avert the attack — in particular after possible intelligence from Moscow’s adversary the US — could be seen in some quarters as a major failure for the Russian security services.
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