Kremlin said that it did not know about France’s transfer of data to Russia on Crocus. French President Emmanuel Macron previously said that he had “useful information” regarding the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in the Moscow region.

At the same time, he considered the comments made by the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu in a conversation with his French colleague “threatening”. The Russian defense department noted that Lecornu persistently tried to convince ShoigU that Ukraine and the West were not involved in the terrorist attacks.