Moscow was warned about possibility of such an event but data was too general, Foreign Intelligence chief Sergey Naryshkin said
The US had warned Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) about the possibility of a terrorist attack ahead of last month’s massacre in Crocus City Hall near Moscow, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, told reporters on Tuesday.
However, the Russian spy chief explained that the information provided by the US did not contain any specific details and could not be used to single out who may have been plotting the attack or where.
Previously, the US claimed that it had warned Moscow of a possible terrorist attack two weeks before armed gunmen went on a shooting spree at Crocus City Hall in the Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk which they then set on fire. The attack resulted in the death of at least 144 people.
”The FSB received certain information from the intelligence services of the USA that this, unfortunately, is possible,” Naryshkin recalled. “However, the information was too general and did not allow us to fully identify those who participated in this terrible crime,” he noted.
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