Editing Crocus hall terror attack (section)

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Sunday March 24, 2024 was declared a national day of mourning. On the evening before, President Putin addressed the nation in a nationally televised broadcast vowing, ""All perpetrators, organizers and customers of this [[crime]] will suffer fair and inevitable punishment. Whoever they are, whoever guides them. I repeat, we will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this attack on Russia, on our people."<ref>[https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-vows-revenge-bloodbath-moscow-attack-points-finger-help-ukraine-11-terrorists Putin Vows Revenge For "Bloodbath" Moscow Attack, Points Finger At Help From Ukraine, As 11 'Terrorists' Captured], MAR 23, 2024. zerohedge.com</ref>

The head of [[RT]] Margarita Simonyan commented: "It immediately becomes obvious why American media shouted in unison that it was ISIS...Because this is not ISIS...It’s just that the actors were selected in such a way that they could convince the [[stupid]] part of the global community that it was ISIS...And the fact that even before the arrests, even before the names of the perpetrators were found, Western [[intelligence service]]s began to convince the world that it was ISIS - that's what gave them away”.

When asked if the [[United States]], [[Britain]] and [[Ukraine]] could be behind the terrorist attack, Director Alexander Bortnikov of the [[Federal Security Service]] (FSB) domestic [[counterintelligence]] agency replied: "We think that this is so...In any case, we are now talking about the information that we have...the investigators also have concrete results".<ref>[https://www.bitchute.com/video/v0o5uRkfNWab/ FULL INTERVIEW WITH FSB DIRECTOR ALEXANDER BORTNIKOV ABOUT UKRAINE/ISIS AND THE TERROR ATTACKS], March 26, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/27/yesterdays-remarkable-statements-to-journalists-by-alexander-bortnikov-director-of-russias-federal-security-service-fsb/ Yesterday’s remarkable statements to journalists by Alexander Bortnikov, director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)], Gilbert Doctorow, March 27, 2024. gilbertdoctorow.com</ref>

Since January 2024 some 100,000 Russian citizens volunteered for the armed services. In the first 10 days after the Crocus Hall terror attack, 16,000 signed up. Many said they wanted to avenge the deaths of those murdered in the Crocus Hall attack.

On March 3, 2024 during remarks at the congress of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia President Putin said: "There is every reason to believe that the main goal of the perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall was to cause harm to our unity...We have a country that is a unique example of inter-confessional harmony and unity, inter-religious unity, inter-ethnic unity...Everyone understands the conditions we live in...The country is forced to defend its interests, its people, its future, its [[sovereignty]] by force."