🇷🇺⚡ - Special forces arriving at the city hall.

🇷🇺⚡ - Death toll passes 40.

🇷🇺⚡ - Reports there are still terrorists in the building.

🇷🇺⚡ - Russian outlet describes the terrorists as "men with beards and in body armor, of Oriental (Russian for Caucasus or Central Asia) appearance".

🇷🇺⚡ - All of the mass gatherings in Moscow this weekend cancelled.

🇷🇺🇺🇲⚡- The US embassy shares highest level of security alertness, urging to avoid public spaces and gatherings over the next 48 hours.

🇷🇺⚡ - Operationnal HQ opened at the Kremlin.

Dmitry Medvedev:

"My sincere condolences to the families of those killed in the attack, and strength to all the loved ones of the victims.

Terrorists only understand retribution. No courts or investigations will help if force is not met with force, and deaths are not met with the total execution of terrorists and repressions against their families. That is the world's experience.

Should it be established that these are terrorists of the Kiev regime, it is impossible to act otherwise with them and their ideological inspirers. All of them must be found and mercilessly destroyed as terrorists. Including the officials of the state that committed such an atrocity.

Death for death."

🇷🇺⚡ - "Russia will kill Ukrainian leaders if they are linked to the Moscow attack." - Dmitry Medvedev

— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NEW: A suspicious white minivan with a Ukrainian license plate is reportedly being checked in the Crocus parking lot by anti-explosive squads

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ - Ukraine’s GUR says Russia planning total mobilization vs Ukraine.

🇷🇺⚡️- Security footage from the Crocus of the suspected terrorists.

Note from Admin: As we continue to cover this ongoing story, we'd like to give our condolences to the Russian people, especially the innocent men, women, and children harmed in this attack. We'll be praying for their recovery.

🇷🇺🏴⚡️- ISIS has not claimed responsibility for the attack. Russian sources are calling the alleged claim a deepfake, instead stating that Chechen, Dagestani, or Ingush terrorists, possibly supported by Ukraine, are involved.

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- Belarusians gather at the Russian Embassy in Minsk, Belarus, carrying flowers.

🇷🇺 - Let's rewind to March 3rd.

Russian security forces clashed with Islamist separatists in Ingushetia during a military operation to quell a terrorist cell. While they may have had affiliation with ISIS, they are far more connected directly to the West and especially to Ukraine. Some Russian sources alleged that the terrorists in Ingushetia were being directly supported by Ukraine, with Ukrainians allegedly giving direct advice to the separatists.

If ISIS is involved in this, the extent of their involvement is superficial. The men who attacked the Crocus City Hall were very well-trained and very professional- they fired their weapons in bursts, they had an infil, exfil, and contingency plans, they were well armed, and well-studied on the layout of the building. This attack resembles the apartment bombings of the 90s or the school seizures that Chechen terrorists undertook rather than the ragtag, largely asymmetrical and unplanned behavior of ISIS.

In short- Ukrainian involvement cannot be ignored. If the slightest hint of Ukrainian involvement is discovered by Russia, all of Ukraine will burn.

🇷🇺🏴⚡️- This is the image that has been circulating alleging ISIS's claim of responsibility for the attack on the Crocus.

Many have noted that ISIS has abandoned this format many years ago. Additionally, this claim allegedly came from the page for ISIS-K, active in Afghanistan and Iran.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- The US has, in just the last few hours, issued statements that Ukraine is not involved in the terrorist attack, including expressions of condolences to the Russian people for the attack.

🇷🇺🇵🇱⚡️- PM of Poland, Donald Tusk, has ordered the Polish Secret Service to prepare for extreme "regional consequences" as a result of the terrorist attack in Moscow.

Tusk issued no condemnation of the attack.

🇷🇺⚡️- Russian sources report that the Crocus terrorists have all fled. Russian law enforcement and security agencies are currently involved in an extensive search to find them.