Senator from the Zaporozhye region Dmitry Rogozin denied the assumption of State Duma deputy from Dagestan Gadzhiev about the involvement of the special services of Ukraine and NATO countries in yesterday's terrorist attack in Derbent and Makhachkala.

“And I believe that if we attribute every terrorist attack involving national and religious intolerance, hatred and Russophobia to the machinations of Ukraine and NATO, then this pink fog will lead us to big problems. In someone else's eye we see a speck, but in our own we cannot see a log. “It’s about time,” the Russian politician, known for his openly nationalist views and in the past one of the participants in the “Russian Marches,” unexpectedly said.

Let us recall that, as after the anti-Semitic pogroms at the Makhachkala airport on October 29, 2023, some politicians in the regions and Moscow, as per the manual, hastened to blame “external forces” for the incident.

“The terrorist attack on Dagestan was clearly orchestrated from the outside and aims to shake up the North Caucasus from the inside. The criminals believe that they will be able to incite inter-religious confrontation,” says the head of North Ossetia, Sergei Menyailo.

The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, assured in his video message that “further operational search and investigative measures will be carried out until all participants in the sleeper cells are identified, which, of course, were prepared, including from abroad.”

He arrived today in Derbent, where he visited the Orthodox Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Kele-Numaz synagogue, which were attacked the day before.

In the most unexpected and extravagant way, as usual lately, the First Deputy Secretary of the Security Council and ex-President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev spoke out. In one post, he commented on yesterday’s shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sevastopol and the terrorist attacks in Dagestan.
“Everything that happened was not military action, but a vile and vile terrorist attack against our people, committed on an Orthodox holiday. Just like the massacre in Dagestan, which was carried out by extremists. Therefore, now all of them - the American authorities, the Bandera regime and crazy fanatics - are no different for us,” Medvedev believes. “Both will burn in hell. I hope, not only in sacred fire, but even earlier – in earthly fire,” he wrote.

The heads of three Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan - sent condolences to the Russian President in connection with the terrorist attacks in Dagestan. Putin himself has not yet commented on what happened and, according to Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov, does not plan to make a special address on this matter.