The official death toll from Russian authorities in the wake of Friday’s terror attack on a Moscow concert hall has reached 133 killed, with some unofficial reports saying there could be as many as 140 or more. As the scene continues to be processed and investigated, and given some of the hospitalized are in critical condition, the death toll is likely to rise. Over 150 were wounded in the attack, which involved a group of well-equipped attackers sporadically shooting into crowds as they walked through the mall and into the concert hall. Three children are still in the hospital, with one in critical condition.
The mall and complex at the Crocus City Hall music venue appears to have burned for many hours through the night. Russia’s Investigative Committee later said more bodies were recovered from be smoldering building. Importantly, authorities on Saturday announced the capture of four suspected gunmen, also amid unconfirmed social media videos purporting to show some of the detained alleged gunmen.
Eleven 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.”
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.”
🚨One of Moscow Crocus City Hall terrorists has been captured and is being interrogated. Which names will he give up? pic.twitter.com/5mcxiwD9XC
— Aussie Cossack (@aussiecossack) March 23, 2024
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.
But both Washington and Kiev have been quick to reject any narrative of Ukraine’s involvement. White House spokesman John Kirby said Friday, “The images are just horrible. Just hard to watch, and our thoughts obviously are going to be with the victims of this terrible, terrible shooting attack,” before emphasizing that there’s “No indication at this time that Ukraine or Ukrainians were involved in the shooting.”
US intelligence officials speaking to The New York Times said the Islamic State (ISIS-K) was behind it, and claimed Washington even tried to warn Moscow that some kind of big terror attack was coming.
Early this month the US Embassy in Moscow issued a security alert calling for all US nationals in Russia to avoid public venues. This has since raised questions, resulting in Russia’s foreign ministry to demand answers as to what US intelligence officials knew and when did they know it.
🚨🇷🇺 THEY CAPTURED THE THIRD ALLEGED TERRORIST
He was trying to hide in the forests of the Bryansk region.https://t.co/RWjTaYsplZ
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 23, 2024
The Ukrainian government itself quickly sought to distance itself from the attack, with adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, stating the following:
“Ukraine certainly has nothing to do with the shooting/explosions in the Crocus City Hall (Moscow Region, Russia),” Podolyak said in his post. “It makes no sense whatsoever.”
“First of all, Ukraine has been fighting with the Russian army for more than two years. And everything in this war will be decided only on the battlefield,” Podolyak continued. “Only by the quantity of weapons and qualitative military decisions. Terrorist attacks do not solve any problems…”
Complicating matters for Moscow, or perhaps clarifying them, is that ISIS has reportedly issued follow-up statements claiming responsibility…
ISIS has now released an additional Statement in which they claim Responsibility for the Terrorist Attack last night against the Crocus Concert Hall in the Russian Capital of Moscow; while also Posting a Picture of the Attackers only minutes before the Shooting began, in which… pic.twitter.com/zmsH9degmD
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 23, 2024
Still on Saturday Kremlin authorities kept up their accusations centered on Ukraine, and also hit out at the West, with foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova saying on Telegram, “The main point is that American authorities don’t forget how their information and political environment linked the terrorists who shot people in Crocus City Hall to the banned terrorist organization ISIS.”
“Now we know in which country these bloody bastards planned to hide from persecution — Ukraine,” Zakharova continued. “The same country which for ten years has been turning via Western liberal regimes into a center of terrorism spread in Europe.”
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
Fyi, Fyi, Fo Fum. I spell the blood of CIA scum.
Yeah, ISIS is a CIA product. Makes me wonder just who all has cells in the US waiting on a wake-up call.
The date 3/22 is significant.
To whom and why?
This year is the 322nd anniversary of the founding of Yale.
I have been thinking about the numbers of upcoming dates and wondering if we would see something like this. I got my answer.
They are now a pass/fail joke.
Numerology?
What’s next, witchcraft and necromancy?
Every single one of those who wish us harm, including the evil fuqueres in DC.
Vicky Newland warned of “A big surprise for Putin” last week,
and a Deep State flunky warned Americans in Moscow to “avoid public gatherings like concert halls” earlier this month. They always tell you what they are going to do…..
We are ruled by a vast criminal empire in DC that cannot be voted out who seem
to want us all destroyed in a nother World War.. The only
question now is what are We The People going to do about it?
From a list of occult ‘ holidays ‘. Just a coincidence of course.
3/18 Jacques de Molay Day (Knights Templar)
3/18 Feast of the Supreme Ritual, the invocation of Hours: the beginning of the new year (orgies)
3/19 Goddess Ostara (Ishtar, Eaostre) for whom Easter is named.
3/20 Feast for the Equinox of the Gods: commemorates the founding of Thelema in 1904
3/20-3/22 Pelusia, Invocation of Isis. Tubulustrum Roman purification/Shab-i-barat, Homage to the God of death
3/20 Spring Equinox. Children dedicated to Satan or Tiamet
3/21 is one of the Illuminati’s Human Sacrifice Nights.
Late 60’s went to Marian HS in Framingham Massachusetts. St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, was a school holiday because St. Patrick was the patron saint of the Boston Archdiocese. Imagine my surprise to find out March 19th was St. Joseph’s Day. And as the nuns who taught most of the classes were the Sisters of St. Joseph we had a second school holiday, who’d a thunk it.
That almanac is chock-a-block demonic. Manley P. Hall level stuff.
What do you know about demons Auntie?
Right, not real like the crossing of the solar eclipse paths. That ‘s the real harbinger of doom!
Yeah, it’s more Langley than the Levant for sure.
I don’t know.
Russia has quite a few Muslim majority neighbors, and all of them have reason to hate Russia.
Didn’t Russia used to be the #2 Satan to America’s Great Satan? Why would radical Islamists like them any better now…
As I learn more, I tend to believe this was correct.
Will we ever know the truth? Perhaps, but not if all the investigative journalists are imprisoned.
The FOIA is routinely ignored, scorned even, by all of the various “Agencies” of the Deep State, and Congressional hearings seem to routinely produce nothing that they think is worth acting on
Why bother when Biden and his Senate will stonewall everything anyway, and keep arresting dissidents.
Hattip to Pepe:
You posted another djoo “movie star”. Please get Hollywood out of your head already.
COLOMBO DOES NOT EXIST AND NEVER DID.
Hey, Columbo, if he was still here, could get the truth out of Hillary, or even Bill.
Trying to provoke an angry response from Russia is the intent. The liberal narrative is in tatters, they need a major distraction. They have decided on war.
they always decide on war: money for them and their kids never serve.
Throughout human history, failed governments have started wars, usually to try to avoid revolutions.
You mean the reactionary narrative, mostly referred to these days as “progressive”.
The liberal narrative today is better than ever!
Or, Putin has decided on all out war, and needed a somewhat good excuse.
Which was worse, Hamas’ terrorist attack in Israel, or the terrorist attack on Crocus City?
Let’s see if Putin’s response is worse than Israel’s…
With Israel currently murdering Palestinian women and children by the tens of thousands, with the US fully complicit, with the US having recently vetoed a Gaza ceasefire resolution in the UN Security Council (and now pushing its own bogus “ceasefire” resolution – which Russia and China vetoed), we’re supposed to believe ISIS decided to attack not the USA or Israel but …Russia? During Ramadan? And it wasn’t ISIS from Syria (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) but supposedly “ISIS-K” – Islamic State Khorasan. Riiiiiight…. .
ISIS-K also took credit for the bombing in Iran at that funeral a while back. Iran. Russia. Funny how ISIS-K’s enemies list is exactly like the one the US has.
Didn’t Demented Joe claim it was millions of innocent young girls, raped and dismembered by the Israeli Beasts?
Bloodbath?
Now there’s a word you don’t see very often.
Yes sir, that jumped off the page at me. Granted, it was a translation of the original Russian statement, but all the same, it gave me a bit of a chuckle light of recent histrionics over the word. And then I noticed the picture of the fire damaged Crocus City Hall. Since when does Russia mark its landmarks and civic structures in English? Now maybe that really is the sign on the building, or maybe the image was manipulated, but it stuck out as very odd, IMHO.
Its a venue. Foreigners probably (used to) go there, and young Russians, who all speak good English.
I wonder if it’s a Trump property…
It’s in vogue right now with the chattering classes.
Remember that Putin began his career with the KGB and that he will revert to the old methods of interrogation and the ultimate responses for the same. Make sure John Brennan’s address is boldly posted…….
The last place on earth I would ever want to be is a Russian prison.
…when they want to get answers to a lot of questions.
Torture will get you the answers the tortured think you want to hear.
Turkish prisons used to be said to be the worst, but the french had some dandies too, and so did the CSA.
Then there were the Tsars prisons. No need to mention Vlad the Impaler.
I should have mentioned English prison ships…
Because Brennan is KGB?
In the Soviet Union, power in the KGB meant power over all. As we’ve seen, it can lead to becoming President for Life., or Dictator if you prefer.
Cunt
An Evil one
a TOTALLY evil one with nary a redeeming quality.
Definitely code words for terrorist attacks. Funny how they say something is going to happen and then it does. “Hamas is ISIS!” Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israel actors, over and over oct 7th
Who needs ISIS when we have the US State Dept and CIA?
Euphemisms for terror attacks? Certainly guerilla warfare.
The world is way too much like one of Tom Clancy’s old novels.
Terror attacks are a subset or part and partial guerrilla warfare, or in general, asymmetric warfare.
You’re right of course, but it’s “part and parcel”.
.
Auntie has always thought that the UN symbol, which was designed – no shit – by two OSS alumni (wink wink) and absolutely looks like a top-down view of meat being barbequed on a circular grill.
Fuck the UN, WEPH , WHO and FJB .
It also looks like a target.
And they appear to be grilling a snake in the WHO logo.
Who will seek the hidden meanings in that?
You left out Israel.
Why do you think Israel should be included?
.
One of the shooters admitted that he was paid 250,000 Rubles.up front to.do the killing, and was to receive another 250,000 after. That’s a total of about $5,250.00.
And he said he lost the debit card with the first payment on it. Sure they killed a bunch of people but it was total amateur hour.
Those shooters are beyond fucked.
At this point it’s either a slow very painful death or a quick one, that’s really their only choice. They are going to give up everything that they know, and so probably will the others who have been caught.
And in case anyone missed it, since the attack, the Russians have started to refer to what had been previously called the Special Military Operation as a war.
If the Russians can somehow connect the dots back to the Biden Regime, well it’s not like there’s probably a good number of Russian military operatives who’ve been able to enter through the open FUSA borders in the last few years….right?
Does anyone else find it odd that a major venue near Moscow has the name of the venue spelled out in giant English letters atop the building?
Yes, as I pointed out upthread, that doesn’t pass the smell test. I’ve not observed Russia to sign anything in English, especially not civic buildings and landmarks. Which raises the question, is the image manipulated for consumption by dumb Americans, or what exactly?
I’m no expert on Russia– but I have been following Russian and Ukrainian telegram channels earnestly over the past few years. It is not a municipal / government building ‘town hall’ it is Crocus City ‘Hall ‘ . Crocus City being the shopping center and the hall being the music venue. Through the comments on telegram by those informed far more than me, the name was given by the financers of the project. Also, even in Russia, from what I can tell, is that commercial enterprises employ the English language on signage for businesses, products, and personal apparel very often. I do not sense the average telegram user on popular Russian channels finds the Crocus City Hall sign suspect- many having commented on having been there previously.
Yeah, you can do a street view on google inside the building, and the name on the signs are in English, as are many of the signs for other purposes are in english and russian.
Fair enough. I know companies that operate internationally in Russia (though many don’t now of course, since the SMO and sanctions started) used their English trademarks, and it makes sense for the likes of McDonalds or Coke to do so. But a shopping center, not being branded by an already well known corporate entity being signed in English struck me as very unusual. Do Russians refer verbally to this place in the English words “Crocus City Hall”? Or do they say those words in the equivalent Russian? I’d expect the latter, but may be mistaken.
I have since seen multiple other photos through the course of the day of the now fire damaged building, and all have the same sign visible in part or in whole. So perhaps English language signing is more prevalent there than I thought. I’ve never been to Russia, so have to defer to what I have seen of it in photos and video to form my general impression of the place.
The underlying problem is that we are so often lied to and presented with manipulated imagery and fabrications of “fact” that when I see something that doesn’t make a lot of sense in context, it is now immediate cause for suspicion. Clearly I wasn’t the only one who found the sign to be odd, given the location.
Hell, look at all the furor and speculation over Princess Kate’s recent photoshopped images and video. We have been trained into suspicion (and are rightfully reacting so based upon the endless frauds heaped upon us), such that seeing is not – and cannot be – believing anymore.
The owner of the now destroyed building is supposedly a friend of Trump’s.
No surprise there. I wouldn’t be surprised if The Donald is part owner.
Do you say Pravda News or Truth News? Everybody says Hello and lots of people say OK. I’m sure the Russians , Turks, Indians, Mongolians, Chinese, Peruvians etc, are not rubes as some Americans think.
I don’t take them for rubes, and obviously there are English words that have “sneaked” into common use in other languages, as there are words like Pravda that have entered the English lexicon. The French are famous for their protestation of this effect, as they feel it dilutes their own mother tongue. That all being said, my query was whether the sign (in English) reflected the way the Russian general public typically referred to the place, or if when speaking of it, they had a name in Russian that was more commonly used.
“Crocus City Hall” isn’t exactly a well known established trademark like Starbucks or Kleenex (or to use branding pertinent to a mall specifically, Westfield) which is why the use of the name in English struck me as unusual choice. Especially with the venue being owned by a Russian billionaire, I’m a bit surprised at the branding, that’s all.
I’ve yet to hear anyone utter the word Pravda. Lots of people might know what it means, but it’s not in use like the various American words and phrases the Russians use.
Hot entertainment spots in all the worlds capitals routinely use English names.
English is a great language, and it’s become the worlds language of commerce, culture and science. Geez, Russian bands write and sing songs in English.
It is good to do due diligence. Unless you like being used as a tool. We are all studying this together, and it was a good point. Now we are closer to the answer.
The sad fact is, the Russians know that American products and culture are far superior to the Russian versions. Young Russians have fixated on getting all the Western goods and products that they can for many many years. Older Russians too.
Why ditch your weapons and not try to change your appearance? Clearly paid amateurs in it for the money and not dogmatically inspired, told to make it look like ISIS. Who takes the time to tape a flag on the wall in public for a selfie right before it goes live? That is kind of the definition of FF, being paid to do something and to pin it on somebody else.
Sounds like it could have been a False Flag operation set up by Putin’s lackeys.
you follow Emil Cosman.
I wanna see a Spetnatz camp in every town.
Thank you, no, not in my town.
Ask them to come to your town if you think it’s a good idea.
You are laughably wrong on the value of the ruble, orders of magnitude off.
Having the knife would be ok, however having the severed ear would rock.
Just pay shipping and handling and they will include it “free.”
Reminds me of our Long Range Scouts in Vietnam.
You know any LRRP’s?
It’s not likely that it does.
You believe Putin? Sure, he’s clever, but is he trustworthy?
i am sure that is only the beginning for the CIA proxies caught and will get much worse for them. payback is a b**ch and i am sure will be delivered as it should be – ice cold, prolonged and ending slowly.
If they are tortured long enough without dying, they will confess that they were working for whoever the Russians want them to say they were working for.
I would suggest to Mr. Putin that he can stop all of the attacks on Moscow by programming al of his missiles with the GPS coordinates of Washington DC and then setting out launch switches at various locations, such as malls and theaters and other possible Ukraine targets so that if they are struck by Uke attacks, the missiles will launch, all headed to DC.
Save a few dozen directed at NYC, London and Tel Aviv, please.
What about Beijing?
In a letter to Putin from the KGB:
Da. Is make our mistake. We make forget after election party. Back in Soviet Union we do not have such things. This was make first selection that we not rigging. Big surprise! Weople make right marking….First time. Not like Israel. 5 times actual vote they still not make correct marking. So we have problem, we make too much not-needed vote paper. KGB decide throw party and we make use marking paper for wodka coupon. 4 not run selections is make a lot of wodka coupons.
With big regret and big pain in head from Siberia. KGB.
Predictable censorship from Elon Musk’s X.
I have to ask, what?
WW3 is coming.