A major leader in Russian intelligence, Andrey Popov, has affirmed that there is no doubt that the terrorists who did the massacre in Moscow had connections with Ukraine, as we read in Sputnik:

The fact that the suspected terrorists were going to cross the Russian-Ukrainian border shows that they planned their evacuation routes via Ukraine, Andrey Popov, a reserve FSB colonel and member of the Association of Veterans of the Alfa anti-terror group, said in an interview with Sputnik.

“It would be unrealistic for the terrorists to cross the Ukrainian border without contacts with the country’s special services or the Ukrainian side on the whole,” Popov said.

“In other words, the version about ISIS’* involvement in the Crocus City Hall attack – claimed by the US-led West – holds no water. All these citizens with Tajik passports were moving towards Ukraine, which indicates that it was the Kiev regime who ordered this atrocity,” the reserve FSP colonel added, referring to the attack.

He also suggested that Washington could “directly or indirectly” organize this deadly shooting rampage and that the US could “definitely” finance it, because “terrorism in the form of Ukraine has no other sources of funding except from the US and the UK.”