Russian authorities on Wednesday raised the official death toll to 143 in the terrorist attack on a Moscow concert venue.  Baza, a Telegram channel close to Russian law enforcement, reported that as many as 95 people are missing and not included on the lists of dead or wounded. But Russia is now accusing the United States of covering “something” up because its rulers are making strange comments.

“It’s strange, to say the least, that the Americans have dared to announce a single narrative,”  President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Russian outlet Izvestiya on Wednesday. “This suggests at the very least that they are trying to shift attention away from something,” he added. Speculation of the U.S.’s involvement has already surfaced, however, so Peskov’s suggestion isn’t likely to make headlines.

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The U.S. is also not going to want its slave class to look too closely at the destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and this is an easy way to distract and divide them further.

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The response from the rulers of the U.S. has been odd though. Within hours of Friday’s terrorist attack, both the US and EU began insisting that Ukraine had absolutely nothing to do with it and that the terrorist group Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) was the sole culprit. While that’s the official narrative right now, the U.S. made sure to say Ukraine had nothing to do with it.

Peskov also noted that these claims came in before Moscow had formulated an official version of events since Russian law enforcement is still working on the case. But the four men accused of carrying out this horrific attack were arrested early on Saturday as they attempted to flee into Ukraine, according to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). They were identified as nationals of Tajikistan.

While acknowledging the assessment by security services that the men were “radical Islamists,” Putin noted on Monday that many questions remained unanswered. He also noted that such terrorist attacks fit the pattern of hostile actions against Russia by Ukraine’s foreign sponsors.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has also commented on Washington’s strange insistence on the ISIS-K narrative. The US is obviously biased and trying to “get Ukraine out of harm’s way,” she said during the daily briefing on Wednesday.

Had Kiev truly been blameless, the US would have called for a full investigation, Zakharova argued. Instead, both the White House and the State Department simply announced that “Ukraine has nothing to do with this.” -RT

“Based on what data and what information?” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wondered of the U.S.’s comments. “Only one thing is clear – they began to excuse the Kiev regime in order to excuse themselves. Because everyone understands perfectly well that there is simply no independent [Ukraine] without Western financial and military assistance.”

The U.S. and its Western allies have continued to ignore requests from Moscow to stop egging this war along with consistent supplying of weapons and money. Russia continues to hold back on its threats for the involvement of the West for right now too. We should all hope that they never retaliate for the U.S.’s consistent crossing of lines.