The Russian Investigative Committee announced this Friday that it was studying a Ukrainian lead in the attack perpetrated on March 22 near Moscow and claimed by the Islamic State organization.
“Investigators were able to recover data from the defendants’ cell phones,” he said in a press release. One of them allegedly found photos of the entrances to Crocus City Hall on the Internet and sent them to his manager, investigators say. “He confirmed all of this in his statements,” they still assure.
Furthermore, “photos of men in camouflage with a Ukrainian flag against a background of destroyed buildings” were discovered on this person’s cell phone, the committee continues, without further details.
Russia claimed this Friday to have neutralized 53 Ukrainian drones in several regions, including 44 above the Rostov region which houses the military headquarters of the Russian operation in Ukraine.
The city Rostov-on-Don, capital of this region, was also the scene last June of the spectacular mutiny of Wagner’s mercenaries, who briefly seized the army headquarters before stopping their rebellion .
The idea of sending troops to Ukraine, mentioned by Emmanuel Macron, has sparked a new wave of publications on social networks mixing exaggerations, approximations and fake news, to fan the embers of this anxiety-provoking subject.
Example: “The Army is recruiting and training 200,000 men to carry out operations in Ukraine” or “Recruitment for the war in Ukraine has begun. It is stipulated on the site that immigrants have priority! », wrote Internet users at the end of March, relaying a fake Army website.
The Wall Street Journal claimed to have had access to an internal Kremlin memo detailing “Moscow’s plans to launch a diplomatic and influence campaign to amplify differences around Macron’s position”, while European experts believe that ” the Kremlin has now launched a more aggressive campaign to undermine the French position.”
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