Regarding the terrorist attack that occurred on the outskirts of Russia's capital, Moscow, the head of the intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that the Russian government had received information that preparations for a terrorist attack were underway at least as early as mid-February, and that the Russian government was unable to prevent the terrorist attack. He claimed that the reason for this was to place the blame on the Ukrainian side.
On the 27th, the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported on its website the statement of top director Budanov about the terrorist incident that occurred in the suburbs of Moscow, Russia.
Budanov said, ``The Russian government had received information that preparations for a terrorist attack were underway at least as early as February 15th,'' adding that information was conveyed to the government from a Russian intelligence agency active in Syria, the Middle East. He claimed that he had been
The Russian government claims that it knew where the terrorist group was entering Russia and through which countries.
He then claims that the reason why the Russian government did not prevent the terrorist attacks is that ``the Russian government probably thought that it would be a smaller-scale terrorist attack and wanted to place all responsibility on Ukraine.''
On the Russian side, President Putin and others have repeatedly said that Ukraine is suspected of involvement in the terrorist incident, but Budanov said, ``Russia's claims are nonsense.Even if they are an enemy country, they targeted civilians.'' "We do not condone terrorism," he said, strongly denying any involvement by Ukraine.