Putin’s No. 1 Ally Appears to Expose Kremlin Terror Story as Total BS

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday appears to have blown a massive hole in Vladimir Putin’s claims that Ukraine may have been behind the horrific terror attack at a concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow last week.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the massacre Friday at the Crocus City Hall in which 139 people were killed. Nevertheless, Putin has attempted to shift blame for the bloodshed to Kyiv— but a major claim that the Russian president cited as evidence of potential Ukrainian involvement has now been utterly contradicted by none other than his most ardent ally.

Even after the radical Islamists claimed to be behind the attack, Putin did not mention them in his first national address about the incident on Saturday. Instead, he said that four of the attackers were arrested as they fled in the direction of Ukraine, adding that a “window was prepared for them from the Ukrainian side” to cross the border.

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