Follow the “Ukrainian lead” for the attack on Flyserves the Russian president Vladimir Putin especially to increase pressure on Kiev and the Born. And the closure of the Kremlin to the West worries the Atlantic chancelleries. The risk was also felt by the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloniwho yesterday, on “Fuori dal coro”, clarified that one must “be muscular in deeds and not in attitudes” and that he did not agree with the words used by Emmanuel Macron on the troops in Kiev, because “I am convinced that we must pay attention to the tones we use.” “If we don’t give up – continued the prime minister – we will force Putin to sit at a negotiating table to seek a just peace.” And the increase in missile strikes on Ukraine (like the one yesterday in Kharkiv) shows that the Russian leader’s intentions, at least for the moment, are clear.
The escalation in Ukraine parallels the attack on Crocus City Hall seems to have its own perverse logic. It doesn’t help the body count. The toll could be even more serious than the 140 deaths confirmed – of which 84 identified – by the Russian investigative committee. According to Baza, a Russian media close to Moscow’s security services – quoted by Guardian – another 95 names do not appear in the official list of victims: these are people whose family members have not been able to contact them since the evening of March 22nd. If they were to be among the victims, the toll would exceed 230 deaths. But the massacre in Moscow has known perpetrators and a clear claim: that of ISIS-K. Yet, from the first hours following the attack, another lead began to circulate and be fed into the Russian apparatus.
The one that would arrive directly in Kiev and which was forcefully reiterated by the secretary of the National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushevand by the head of the security services, Alexander Bortnikov.
The scenario would unite the enemy of the “existential war” unleashed by Putin with that of Islamist terror. Also yesterday, some Duma deputies and public figures linked to the Putin system signed an appeal addressed to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to investigate the links between the United States, NATO members and Ukraine for “acts of terrorism” committed in the country. And among the declarations of the signatories, there is also the possibility of ISIS involvement. But if the head of the Kremlin seems intent on obsessively finding a clue that justifies the accusations leveled at Kiev and the West, not everyone in the tsar’s circle would agree with this maneuver. This was revealed by some agency sources Bloomberg, according to which the Russian president would face some resistance from several members of the Federation’s elite. We are talking above all about representatives of the high economic and political spheres, but also about loyalists of the Kremlin leader. Men who remained close to the president even throughout the course of the war in Ukraine, but who this time would be trying to make him give up Putin from persevering in this hunt. Which to many observers appears to be a new attempt to strengthen anti-Ukrainian sentiment in public opinion.
INTERNAL DIVISIONS
For Mary Zakarova, spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, the news of internal divisions would be the “mother of all fake news”. Yet Bloomberg’s revelations about differences in the Kremlin’s “magic circle” seem to have evidence even in the president’s own statements and his collaborators. Putin, who, as spokesman Dmitry said yesterday Peskov, «did not sleep all night, the night of the attack on Crocus City Hall» to work, had to admit that the perpetrators were Islamic terrorists. You relaunched the thesis of the alleged escape of the terrorists towards Ukrainian territory. «It is necessary to answer the question: why after committing the crime did the terrorists try to go to Ukraine? Who was waiting for them there? », He asked himself publicly Putin. But then it was his ally Alexander Lukashenko himself who denied it, saying that in reality the car in which the ISIS men were traveling was headed for Belarus, and only later headed towards Ukraine. Only two days ago, Peskov himself, who is Putin’s voice with the press (and with the world), made it clear that it was too early to talk about a reaction against Kiev. «An investigation is still ongoing. It would not be correct to speculate at this time,” the Kremlin spokesman said, referring to the alleged Ukrainian involvement. And if we still cannot speak of a sentence that completely exonerates Ukraine in the eyes of the Tsar, it is certainly a statement that tries not to add fuel to the fire. Even more so in a phase in which there is no shortage of accusations against Kiev and the Western bloc.
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