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Credit: Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via APMOSCOW, Russia — The death toll in the Moscow concert hall attack has risen to 133, Russia’s top state investigative agency said Saturday.
Ukraine has strongly denied any involvement and accused Moscow of using the attack to try to stoke fervor in its war effort.attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall The Islamic State group’s Afghanistan branch claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack in a statement posted on affiliated channels on social media. A U.S. intelligence official told The Associated Press that U.S. agencies had confirmed that the group was responsible for the attack.Some Russian lawmakers pointed the finger at Ukraine immediately after the attack. But Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied any involvement.
“We consider such accusations to be a planned provocation by the Kremlin to further fuel anti-Ukrainian hysteria in Russian society, create conditions for increased mobilization of Russian citizens to participate in the criminal aggression against our country and discredit Ukraine in the eyes of the international community,” a ministry said in a statement.
In a statement posted by its Aamaq news agency, the IS's Afghanistan affiliate said it had attacked a large gathering of “Christians” in Krasnogorsk. It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the claim. Messages of outrage, shock and support for the victims and their families have streamed in from around the world.
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