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The Islamic State has been responsible for at least 15 terrorist attacks in Russia since 2015.

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attacks on Russian soil by the Islamic State (IS) are nothing new. The jihadist group began claiming activity in Russia in 2015, some with no casualties and others

The Islamic State has been responsible for at least 15 terrorist attacks in Russia since 2015.

attacks on Russian soil by the Islamic State (IS) are nothing new. The jihadist group began claiming activity in Russia in 2015, some with no casualties and others with only a few fatalities, such as the one that occurred in the Urals in 2017, when a residential building bombing killed 39 people, or the one that occurred this Friday in Moscow, at least 143 victims.

According to data collected EFEboth from our own information and from databases data such as the US State DepartmentHe IS has claimed or is responsible for at least 15 attacks in Russia between 2015 and 2019.the last year when a Daesh action was recorded until this Friday in Moscow.

The incident at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Moscow became the deadliest recorded since then.However, IS activities in Russia range from killing police officers, massacring worshipers in a church, bombing a supermarket, shootings, or a lone man stabbing civilians.

2015 attack

December 19th. During the first attack, for which IS claimed responsibility on Russian territory, a man shot 11 tourists and killed one of them during a visit to the Naryn-Kala citadel in Derbent, Republic of Dagestan.

Attacks on 2016

August 17. Two men At the checkpoint they attacked a policeman with weapons and axes. from Balashia near Moscow and were shot by agents. The police officer was seriously injured. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.

October 23. Two men They shoot at the policeman who was inspecting his car. in Nizhny Novgorod, who returned fire and killed two of the attackers. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was two “Islamic State soldiers.”

December 17. Two assumptions ISIS militants wounded a policeman in GroznyChechnya and They used his gun and stolen car to kill three other police officers. Although ISIS did not claim responsibility for the attack, the US State Department did not claim responsibility. claims they were recruited by a Daesh commander in Syria and videos were published of them pledging allegiance to the group.

Attacks on 2017

March 24. Group of suspected IS partners They attacked the Russian Guard post in Grozny, which As a result, six soldiers and six attackers were killed. IS has not claimed responsibility, but the US has attributed the attack to it.

April, 4. Two Policemen died in Russia in a shootout in the southern city of Astrakhan, in actions for which IS later claimed responsibility.

August 19. A 19-year-old boy from the Siberian city of Surgut wanders the streets stabbed and wounded seven people, before he was shot and killed by police. The attack, claimed by IS, came a day after similar attacks in Finland and Germany, where several people were stabbed.

27th of December. An explosion occurred in the supermarket of the Perekrestok chain in St. Petersburg. twenty wounded. a bomb that had a yield equivalent to 200 grams of trilitol., did not cause serious damage to the building. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.

Attacks on 2018

February 8. An armed man fires indiscriminately outside a church in the city of Kizlyar into a crowd of people celebrating the Russian holiday of Masletnis, similar to carnival. Five people were killed and five more were injured. Announced on the same day IS.

May 15. IS claims three terrorist attacks: one in Neftekamsk, another in Nizhny Novgorod and a third in Dagestan. They claim they attacked police and a Sufi temple, but no deaths were reported.

31th of December. An explosion in a residential building in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk in the Urals killed 39 people. At the time of the tragedy, the building was believed to have collapsed due to a gas explosion, but days later ISIS claimed responsibility, saying it had killed 39 Russian “crusaders.”

Attacks on 2019

April 8. An explosion occurred in Kolomna near Moscow, which was later announced by IS. There were allegedly no casualties.

July 1. A man kills a police officer with a knife at a checkpoint in the Achkhoy-Martonovsky district of Chechnya. The policeman killed the attacker. IS claims responsibility for the attack.

Attack in 2024

Jihadist group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in the concert hall of the shopping center in MoscowAt least 143 people were killed and 100 injured, according to the agency. Amakpropaganda organ of the organization.

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Source: Aristegui Noticias

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