Ukraine’s top spy chief has claimed Vladimir Putin and his Kremlin inner circle allowed the Crocus City Hall terror attack to go ahead. Kyrylo Budanov disclosed shocking intelligence which revealed that Moscow knew substantial details about the terror attack by February 15 – more than a month before the attack took place.
These details included the routes through which the terrorists intended to enter Russia. Mr Budanov claimed that Russian security services gathered information about the attack through the country’s “intelligence directorate in Syria”.
Speaking at the Third International Forum on Strategic Communications on Wednesday, the head of Ukraine‘s Military Intelligence (HUR) said there were just two reasons why Russia didn’t stop the attacks.
Mr Budanov said that President Putin either wanted to exploit the terror attack to purge several senior officials or the Russian state underestimated the scale of the plot.
He said: “Don’t let them tell fairy tales that strangely everything materialised out of …