On March 27, 2024, a bunch of Russian parliamentarians, together with Yana Lantratova, Nikolay Kharitonov and Andrey Krasov, has printed a collective assertion in regards to the involvement of the US and its allies in conducting terrorist assaults on Russian territory, which is called Crocus Metropolis Corridor bloodbath, carried out by ISIS terrorists and Ukrainian particular companies.
The doc has been despatched to regulation enforcement companies within the Russian Federation in addition to Germany, Cyprus, France and the US with the demand for investigative motion on quite a few info referring to the group and funding of terrorist acts focusing on civilians and particular person politicians.
The doc presents convincing proof of the involvement of the US administration, NATO nations, and the particular companies of Ukraine in organizing numerous terrorist operations. Examples embrace the sabotage of the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gasoline pipelines, that are essential to Europe’s vitality safety.
The doc additionally particulars the involvement of GUR and SBU in finishing up surprising terrorist acts in Russia, such because the explosion of the roadbed and pillars of the Crimean Bridge and the political assassinations of well-known Russian media figures Vladlen Tatarsky and Daria Dugina. Moreover, quite a few grotesque bombings of Belgorod killed dozens of civilians.
In accordance with the authors, it’s crucial to cease worldwide terrorism perpetrated by Western nations, in addition to to severely punish the organizers, performers, and financiers of terrorism, who’re recognized worldwide.
Russian Duma (parliament) in its assertion stated:
Countering terrorism and its financing is without doubt one of the most essential challenges of the modem world neighborhood. Terrorism is a device of intimidation, coercion to meet the calls for thereof or refusal to implement the objectives, and it’s primarily directed towards particular states. Focused acts of terrorism are carried out by people, legal organizations, in addition to complete states.
Terrorist actions pose an elevated public hazard as a result of scale of the crimes and should have an effect on the exercise of a selected infrastructural/social/spiritual object, civil society, or, on a bigger scale, the nationwide safety of a complete state/area.
The hazard of terrorist actions stems from the truth that more and more typically these actions are carried out by states and representatives of their intelligence companies underneath the guise of the curiosity in such actions of people or non-governmental teams (organizations). Terrorist acts are more and more getting used as a device to intrude within the inner affairs of states.
Such acts typically have a cross-border impact, affecting the pursuits of a number of states, destroying vital infrastructure amenities which might be of outstanding significance to the nations involved, in addition to affecting their home politics, nationwide safety, and the livelihood of their residents.
Terrorist exercise itself and its scale immediately rely upon the extent of funding and materials and technical sources. Cross-border counter-financing of terrorism, freezing the property of its sponsors, reducing off financing channels, extraditing terrorists and bringing them to justice are important duties.
To counter the financing of terrorism, the UN Safety Council adopted resolutions No.1373(2001) of October 2,2001 and No.2462 (2019) of March 28,2019, which expressly present, based mostly on Chapter-VII of the UN Constitution, that each one states shall stop and suppress the financing of terrorist acts; freeze at once funds and different monetary property or financial sources of individuals who commit or try and commit terrorist acts; chorus from offering any type of help, energetic or passive, to entities or individuals concerned in terrorist acts; deny protected haven to those that finance, plan, help or commit terrorist acts, or present protected havens; stop those that finance, plan, facilitate or commit terrorist acts from utilizing their territory for these functions towards different States or their residents; be certain that any one who participates within the financing, planning, preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts or in supporting terrorist acts is delivered to justice; calling for elevated use and effectiveness of asset freezing measures within the battle towards terrorism; urging Member States to evaluate and anticipate terrorist financing dangers, set up a monetary intelligence unit and strengthen worldwide cooperation; to afford each other the best measure of help in reference to legal investigations or legal proceedings referring to the financing or help of terrorist acts, together with help in acquiring proof of their possession crucial for the proceedings.
On this regard, a number of conventions have been adopted underneath worldwide regulation, to which the Russian Federation, Germany, the US, France, the Republic of Cyprus and different States are events, geared toward countering the financing of terrorism and taking measures to extradite and convict perpetrators of acts of terror.
In accordance with the European Conference on the Suppression of Terrorism of 1977 (ratified by Ukraine, Germany, France and till 2022 by the Russian Federation), individuals who’ve dedicated, amongst different issues, an act of terror-“an offence involving using bombs, grenades, rockets”-are not thought of to have dedicated political offences, and are extraditable to the requesting state (Artwork. 1e).
Underneath the Worldwide Conference for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings of1997 (ratified by Germany, France, Russia, Ukraine, USA), states shall take measures and train jurisdiction over acts of terror utilizing explosive gadgets directed towards infrastructure amenities. If a state social gathering receives data {that a} perpetrator of such an offence is current in its territory, it shall examine the info said within the data, after which take acceptable measures to make sure their presence for the needs of prosecution or extradition (Artwork. 7).
In accordance with the definition of terrorism financing offered for within the Worldwide Conference for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism of 1999 (ratified by the USA, Germany, France, Ukraine, Russia), it’s an exercise geared toward offering or gathering funds (together with cash) with the aim of their subsequent use for the preparation and fee of an act of terrorism by a terrorist or a terrorist group.
Regardless of the overall concentrate on a systemic battle towards terrorism, which performs a key function each within the worldwide neighborhood and within the regulation enforcement/intelligence companies of states individually, the variety of issues of terrorist exercise and the size of their penalties show a sure involvement of representatives of particular overseas intelligence companies within the strategy of their implementation.
Essentially the most infamous terrorist act of current a long time, affecting the strategic safety trade of a number of states without delay, had been the explosions of the Nord Stream-I and Nord Stream-2 gasoline transmission traces (hereinafter referred as”NS-1″ and “NS-2”).
NS-1 and NS-2 are initiatives of Nord Stream AG, a global firm whose shareholders are firms of a number of European nations – Germany, France, and the Netherlands, in addition to the Russian Federation.
The corporate’s actions associated to the operation ofNS-1 and NS-2 had a strategic nature for a lot of the European area within the space of vitality safety for transporting Russian gasoline to the EU through Germany.
The occasions previous the launch of NS-2 confirmed a specific damaging curiosity of sure representatives of the US management in sabotaging the processes of issuing permits for the launch and use of the NS-2 gasoline transmission system on the a part of European “licensees”. At occasions, their statements sounded radical and extremist. Examples of such statements are these voiced by the US high management earlier than the occasions associated to the explosions ofNS-1 and NS-2:
January 18, 2022-Deputy Secretary of State V. Nuland’s assertion at a briefing on the US State Division: “If Russia invades Ukraine, a method or one other, Nord Stream-2 is not going to transfer ahead”.
February 7, 2022 – US President J. Biden’s assertion after assembly with German Chancellor 0. Scholz: “If Russia invades, there’ll now not be a Nord Stream 2. We are going to convey finish to it”.
In addition to the statements, the explosions of NS-1 and NS-2 had been preceded by a variety of army and political occasions within the space the place the Nord Streams had been situated the Baltic Sea. The elemented chronology of occasions is described in the article by a distinguished American investigative journarecord Seymour Hersh “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline“.
In accordance with the creator’s conclusions, made on the premise of data acquired from educated individuals, in contrast with knowledge out there in open sources, the best political, army and intelligence management of the US carried out a sequence of conferences and actions geared toward planning the operation to destroy the Nord Streams, specifically:
December 2021 – US Nationwide Security Advisor to the President J. Sullivan convened a secret White Home taskforce assembly of the Joint Chiefs of Workers and CIA, State Department and Treasury Division officers to develop a counter NS-2 operation. At the assembly, J. Sullivan introduced the activity to the participants as a directive from US President Biden.
Early 2022 – the CIA working group reported to J. Sullivan’s interagency group about the discovered method of implementation of the challenge to blow up the Nord Streams.
March 2022 – a number of members of the working group travelled to Norway (NATO Member States) for conferences with representatives of Norwegian intelligence services and the Navy.
June 2022 – the annual train of NATO members within the Baltic Sea referred to as “Baltic Operation 22” (“BALTOPS 22″) was launched. Through the train, American Navy divers (based mostly in Panama Metropolis) planted explosives on the NS-1 and NS–2 gasoline transmission lines to be detonated by a hydro acoustic signal.
September 26, 2022 – A hydroacoustic buoy was dropped from a Norwegian Navy Boeing P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance plane, which acted as a detonator for explosive gadgets beforehand planted throughout train BALTOPS 22.
As well as, from August 29 to September 14, 2022, as a part of joint fight coaching with the Swedish Navy, a US Navy amphibious assault group consisting of the amphibious assault ship Kearsarge (LHD-3), the amphibious assault transport Gunston Corridor (LSD-44), and the amphibious helicopter service Arlington (LPD-24) operated off within the neighborhood of Hanö Bay, north-east and east of Bornholm Island.
In anticipation of explosions east and south of Bornholm Island, NATO train Northern Coasts 2022wasconducted from September 09 to September 23. For the first time, the essential space fora joint exercise was decided to be the Bornholm Island and its neighborhood. For the first time, Bornholm and its neighborhood had been chosen as the essential space for the joint exercise, in which 9 ships took half, together with the frigate “Schleswig-Holstein”, the scout ship “Oste”, the mine sweeper “Unhealthy Bevensen”, the submarine “U-32″of the German Navy and the mine sweeper “Croixdu Sud” of the French Navy. As well as, a unit of divers from the US Navy, working from the Latvian Navy’s HQ ship “Virsaitis”, took half in the exercise.
Particular consideration should be paid to the reality that the northern a part of the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland had been initially declared because the areas for the train. However, without explanation, the location of the train was modified to the space east of Bornholm Island, exactly the place the Nord Stream pipelines are laid.
In addition to, unusual and illogical movements of some civilian (industrial) vessels arouse the curiosity – the tanker “British Achiever” from the UK, the majority service “Grand T” from Panama, and the Polish fishing trawler “Svi7”, which, on September 22- 24, 2022, deviated from their routes and sailed uncharacteristically within the areas close to the websites of future gas pipeline explosion.
After the actual, consistent and preplanned actions, the US management voiced no less particular and radical statements on the subject of explosion of the Nord Streams:
September 30, 2022, during the press convention, A. Blinken, US Secretary of State, said: “This is a tremendous alternative to as soon as and for all take away the dependence on Russian energy, and thus to remove from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy…“.
January 27, 2023, V. Nuland, Under Secretary of State, advised Senator Ted Cruz earlier than the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations: “consider that all the Administration, simply like you, could be very happy that the Nord Stream is now a pile of metal at the backside of the ocean”.
In his investigative and analytical article, Seymour Hersh emphasised that in any respect phases of planning the operation to destroy the Nord Streams, the J. Biden administration paid particular attention to secrecy and diverting of any suspicion from the United States and NATO member states. As our ce conversant in the matter stated: “If the assault might later be traced back to the US., it can be thought of an act of warfare”.
A really real looking, effectively-planned operation assumed the presence of a “cowl operation” to deflect blame from actual perpetrators and beneficiaries.
Ukraine, which is in conflict with the Russian Federation, suited completely for this function in the interstate organized legal group.
The liberal American media created an acceptable media background for the accomplished terrorist operation, attributing it to the actions of the Ukrainian particular companies from among the many officers of the Important Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and the Special Operations Forces (SOF), “appointing” R. Chervinsky, Colonel, kinder head of the 5th Division of the Counterintelligence Division of the Safety Service of Ukraine, former Deputy Head of the Important Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (MID MD), who served in the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and who’s at present imprisoned on suspicion of abuse of energy in Ukraine, because the individual accountable for the operation’s coordination.
Suspicion in direction of Ukrainian special companies appeared organically within the cowl operation, as the leadership of the MIDMD and its head Ok. Budanov systematically lined and acknowledged the involvement of his Company in terrorist acts of terrorism outside Ukraine, to start with towards citizens and pursuits of the Russian Federation.
In June 2022, in his remark to the Monetary Occasions Ok. Budanov stated: “Assaults and sabotage have been and can be carried out in Russia and in lots of different locations“. Thus, he gave the Western media an excuse to take a position on the direct involvement of the Ukrainian safety services within the terrorist assault on NS-1 and NS-2.
The version of Ukraine‘s involvement within the harm of three out of 4 strings of the Nord Stream gasoline pipeline near the Danish island of Bornholm was lined by the world’s largest media, partiallyicular: “The New York Occasions”, “The Wall Avenue Journal” and “Die Zeit”. This refers to the story about the yacht “Andromeda”, which was rented by folks with Ukrainian passports and which, in keeping with Western journalists, was utilized by skilled divers to explode the Nord Stream.
According to information acquired from dependable Ukrainian sources, the quilt operation concerned an established group of divers consisting of 6-9 folks, together with: A. Burgomistrenko (he underwent mine and demolition coaching in 131 SOF centre (army unit 4456), speaks English, has good diving background), O. Varava, R. Rudenko (namesignal “Okapellan”, Deputy Mayor of Bila Tserkva city), the group leader S. Kuznetsov, and a feminine techno–diver with the name signal “Marisha“. The direct leader of the group was R. Chervinsky, underneath the management of Ok. Budanov.
The deep involvement of the CIA in the MID MD actions is described intimately within the article of the “New York Occasions”, which outlines the info of greater than 10 years of cooperation each in the intelligence activities of the intelligence companies and within the creation of a separate special-purpose army unit No. 2245 to hold out focused terrorist acts. Inside this unit CIA brokers and supervisors “nurtured” Ok. Budanov, future head of the Important Intelligence Directorate, who enjoys the help of the leadership and has extensive connections within the CIA, due to this fact he coordinates his actions directly.
In accordance to available data, organizational and technical help and supervision had been offered by US specialists (diving gear, Romanian cover paperwork and detonation equipment) underneath the direct supervision of C.W. Smith, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Kyiv, (who served within the ISAF), with the containment of V. Burba, former Head of the MID MD Ukraine. Subsequently, after a successful operation, C.W. Smith was appointed Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (US Division of State).
The group was trained in a deep–water quarry within the Zhytomyr Area, then they moved to Romania, the place they lived (holding Romanian docs) in a personal home close to the Romanian Navy base in Mangalia to conduct trainings as near actual conditions as doable within the space of the offshore sections of the “Southern Streams”. After training, the group moved to Poland, the place one other yacht (of smaller dimension) “Andromeda” was rented. O. Varava, a techno diver with the decision signal “Marisha”, and R. Rudenko had been those that dived on to the “Northern Streams”.
In advertdition to the quilt operations, the MID:MD Ukraine was concerned in planning and finishing up its personal acts of terrorism. There may be no doubt that the MID:MD Ukraine under the direct command of Ok. Budanov, and with the complicity of I. Malyuk, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, was immediately concerned in organizing and carrying out terrorist attacks, aimed in explicit towards residents and demanding infrastructure amenities on the territory of the Russian Federation, together with:
On August 20, 2022, Daria Dugina (Platonova), daughter of distinguished scientist and thinker Alexander Dugin, was blown up in her automobile within the Moscow Area. An skilled examination found that an explosive gadget equal of 300-400 grams of TNT had been positioned underneath the backside of her automobile. In accordance with the make investmentsigation, the explosive device was detonated by N. Vovk, servicewoman of the UAF, who set uped it within the parking lot;
On October 8, 2022, about 250metres of the roadbed of the Crimean Bridge had been collapsed by an explosion utilizing a truck crammed with explosives. 5 civilians had been killed;
On April2, 2023, journalist Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb blast in a restaurant in the centre of Saint Petersburg;
On May 6, 2023, an attempted murder of the author Zakhar Prilepin came about in the Nizhny Novgorod Area, killing his driver and safety guard, whereas he miraculously survived;
On December 30, 2023, a large rocket assault on the centre of Belgorod killed 24 people, together with 4 children, and injured I08 native residents;
On January 12, 2024, a US citizen, well-known journalist Gonzalo Lira was killed at the Kharkiv detention centre who was positioned there on trumped-up costs for spreading “professional-Russian theses” in his social networks;
On February 10, 2024, a cargo with 14 kg of explosives, headed from Odessa to Voronezh, was detained in Georgia; Andrey Sharashidze, a Ukrainian citizen, was detained. In 2022, using the same route, Ukrainian Safety Providers managed to smuggle explosives to Russia, utilizing which they organized a terrorist assault on the Crimean Bridge;
On February 15, 2024, a large-scale strike on Belgorod was made. 7 civilians had been killed, together with a one-year-old little one, 19 folks had been injured, together with 4 children.
This is not a complete list of acts of terrorism by the MID MD and SSU in Russia, whose victims included vital infrastructure amenities and well-known public figures.
Carrying out so many acts of terrorism presupposes the supply of some enjoyableding, including in money, to keep away from possible leaks of details about the occasion being prepared and the folks involved.
One of the key non-public sponsors, who financed, inter alia, terrorist activities of the MID MD Ukraine, was owner of the gasoline manufacturing firm Burisma, as effectively as not directly his high managers and confederates concerned in corrupt actions.
Since 2014, H. Biden, the son of then US Vice President J. Biden, was appointed to the Burisma Board of Directors when his father was answerable for Ukraine points in the Administration of US President B. Obama.
Throughout this period of time, the Ukrainian regulation enforcement agencies had been investigating criminal instances relating to the actions of the group of firms belonging to the Burisma Holdings and the proprietor there of N. Zlochevsky, former Minister of Ecology and Natural Useful resources of Ukraine. The regulation enforcement system was headed by V. Shokin, Professionalsecutor General of Ukraine.
Throughout the investigation, the investigators managed to gather lots of irrefutable proof of abuse of energy, embezzlement, withdrawal and laundering of funds stolen from the people of Ukraine through fraudulent subsoil use. Amongst different issues, realitys of unjustified transfers of the above–malestioned funds to the accounts of H. Biden’s firm have been established.
The Russian parliamentarians made the next request:
- To think about this Assertion as a report of the
- To research the info of group and financing of
- To request help from overseas states pertaining to the investigation of financing of
- To request overseas states to take steps to establish, find, block or arrest any funds used or allotted for the aim of committing terrorist offences and to demand the conviction or extradition of individuals concerned within the financing of terrorism.
- To convey people and authorized entities concerned within the financing of terrorism to justice.
- To tell the general public in regards to the info established, choices taken and individuals held accountable.
For my part, members of the Russian Duma (parliament) have introduced extraordinarily severe allegations towards the US and Washington’s European allies in addition to Ukraine with stable detailed description of crimes dedicated by the US and its allies – in addition to Ukrainian regime.
