A militant detained after the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Moscow said that he was offered to carry out a terrorist attack via Telegram. The video of the interrogation was published by the editor-in-chief of RT and MIA Rossiya Segodnya Margarita Simonyan in her Telegram channel.

The detainee stated that he listened to a “preacher’s lesson’ on Telegram, after which a certain ‘preacher's assistant’ contacted him. In total, the terrorist was promised “about half a million rubles’