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A spokesperson for the Islamic State has praised the group’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack in a recorded message posted online.
Published on the group’s Telegram account, the message also calls for supporters to target “crusaders everywhere”.
Assailants burst into the Crocus City Hall on the western outskirts of Moscow last week, killing 143 people and setting the venue on fire.
A faction of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the massacre shortly after the attack.
However, Russian officials including Vladimir Putin have persistently claimed that Ukraine and the West played a role.
Earlier today, the Russian Investigative Committee claimed to have gathered evidence the gunmen were linked to “Ukrainian nationalists”.
Ukraine has emphatically denied it had anything to do with the attack.