Some Russian officials blamed Ukraine and the United States for a terrorist attack in the predominantly Muslim region of Dagestan despite the region’s long legacy of Islamist violence.
A woman walks past flowers placed in front of the representative office of Dagestan in Moscow on June 24, 2024, following terrorist attacks in Dagestan. Russian lawmakers on Monday quickly blamed external forces, including Ukraine and NATO, for terrorist attacks on Sunday that killed at least 19 people in Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim region of Russia in the North Caucasus that has long been a hotbed of violence by Islamist militants.
In March, gunmen with alleged ties to the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, attacked the Crocus City Hall concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow, killing 145 people. At the time, Russian security officials also implicated Ukraine, and the Kremlin disputed Washington’s account that U.S. intelligence had shared a specific warning ahead of that attack.
A local lawmaker, Abdulkarim Gadzhiev, blamed Sunday’s attack on “to the special services of Ukraine and NATO countries.” The pro-Kremlin head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Leonid Slutsky, who heads the foreign affairs committee in the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, blamed “outside forces” aiming to divide Russians and “sow panic.”Valentina Matviyenko, The head of the Federation Council, the upper chamber, called the attacks “a tragedy” planned outside Russia.
In previous years, thousands of Dagestanis left Russia to fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — an exodus apparently encouraged by the Kremlin. However, hundreds ultimately were brought back to serve prison sentences after ISIS was defeated by a U.S.-led coalition.on a popular Moscow concert venue in March. At least 137 people were killed in the worst terrorist attack to hit the country in 20 years.
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