"Islamic state" threatens Russia with terrorist attacks

The Islamic State published a video with promises to arrange terrorist attacks in Russia. This was reported by the SITE monitoring group.

The video in Russian was published by the al-Hayut media center belonging to the Islamic State. The video sounds with the words: "Soon, very soon the blood will spill like an ocean." The video sequence contains frames of decapitations and executions.

The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that he knew about the video from the Islamic State, but did not see him and could not assess reliability. "I read messages about this video, however, I have not seen it, I don’t know the reliability of this video, the reliability of these sources. In any case, I have no doubt that this will be the material for consideration by our special services," Peskov said.

The Islamic State previously called for attacking Russia and the United States in revenge for air strikes by its militants in Syria. After the start of the Russian air operation in this country, the leader of Al-Qaeda Ayman Az-Zavakhiri called on the Muslims-Sunnis to rally against Russia and other enemies in Syria and Iraq.

The main version of the death of the A321 Liner Airlines Kogalymavia is considered an explosion of a bomb on board over the Sinai Peninsula. This is confirmed by the radio interception of the conversations of the militants of the Islamic State. On the afternoon of November 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to suspend Russian aviation flights to Egypt until the causes of the A321 disaster will be clarified. On November 8, Putin signed a decree on the suspension of air transportation of citizens from Russia to Egypt.

This week in Tatarstan, and then in Moscow , reports about the preparatory terrorist attacks were widely spread on social networks. The authors referred to friends and relatives working in the police. The typical text looked like this: "According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Russian Federation, 18 terrorists-suicide terrorists were sent. A terrorist attack in large shopping centers is possible in the next weekend. Warnly acquaintance and loved ones. Please take it seriously, we have a very powerful strengthening." First, messages appeared in Kazan, and on Wednesday filled the social networks of Moscow.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs made a refutation of these rumors. “The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is taking all the necessary measures to establish the source of the spread of such texts,” Elena Alekseeva, official representative of the department, wrote on Instagram.