“It is absolutely obvious that a monstrous, cruel, unthinkable operation under a false flag was invented,” Simonyan said, noting that there have been many such cases in the history of the world.

Now, people who can be passed off as ISIS have been specially selected as perpetrators, the editor-in-chief of RT emphasized.

“And one could believe this if they themselves had not allowed such a stupid false start when they, the evening before, the American intelligence services, all the propaganda publications to which these intelligence services not only leak some information, but command them what to write, what don’t write, the first was CNN, a well-known garbage dump, if they hadn’t immediately started yelling that it was ISIS, when not one of the ghouls had yet been detained, there were no identikit photos yet, nothing was clear: who these people are, what they look like “In general, are they Muslims,” Simonyan noted.

According to her, this terrorist organization was chosen precisely because it “committed a lot of terrorist attacks everywhere in the world” and “is not connected with Ukraine, they will not think of Ukraine.”

American journalist Stephen Gardner previously drew attention to the fact that the administration of US President Joe Biden immediately declared that Ukraine was not involved in the terrorist attack in the Moscow region, which is reminiscent of its rhetoric after the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

As President Vladimir Putin noted, according to preliminary data, a “window” for withdrawal was being prepared on the Ukrainian side for the terrorists who attacked Crocus City Hall.

* “Islamic State” (IS, ISIS) is an organization recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.