Makeleio in Moscow: US had warned Russia of a terrorist threat

The U.S. confirms the claims of the jihadist organization that its militants launched the very dead attack on a Krasnogorsk concert hall, near , according to two American officials citing the news agency Reuters. American officials stress that Washington had warned Moscow two weeks ago about the terrorist threat. ” Earlier this month, the U.S. government had information about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow – possibly against large gatherings, including concerts – which prompted the State Department to issue a directive to the Americans in Russia,” said Adrian Watson, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council. “The U.S. government communicated this information to the Russian authorities”, following the long-term policy on the ‘warning duty’, it completed. More than 60 people were killed and 145 injured when gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons against a crowd gathered in a concert hall, near Moscow. This is one of the most deadly terrorist attacks of the last decades in Russia. “We had warned the Russians,” he assured an American official who wanted to maintain his anonymity, referring to the very dead terrorist attack. The US embassy in Russia had warned on 8 March that “extremists” were planning an imminent attack on Moscow, a few hours after Russian security agencies informed that they prevented an attack on a Jewish synagogue preparing jihadists of the Afghan arm of the Islamic State. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked the most serious crisis in Russia’s relations with the West following the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The Kremlin says relations with the US were never in a worse place and accuses Washington of fighting against Moscow, militarily and financially strengthening Kiev.