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Assailants appear to be from Tajikistan, a country on the northern border of Afghanistan.

https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3kodutgy332...

Pretty interesting. Russia has a virtual 'open borders policy' with the central asian states recently.

Russia is already trying to pin this on Ukraine, and doing a very sloppy job at it.

They claim that this van with a Ukrainian license plate was found near the attack. However, they blur out the country part of the plate and the remainder indicates Belarus.

https://bsky.app/profile/thomashansen.bsky.social/post/3kocs...

Terrorists were caught trying to escape to the Ukraine, very close to the border. They were obviously linked to some people on the Ukrainian territory. Or at least they thought so. According to the public information, they got instructions from anonymous telegram account, so it could really be anyone.

There is zero evidence pointing to Ukraine, and ISIS has released video from the attackers.

But let's play along with the lunatic running Russia for a moment:

For them to cross into Ukraine, they would have required the cooperation of the Russian military on the Russian side of the Ukrainian border. So.. really?

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