The Russian government has determined it was a bomb that brought down a Russian plane over Egypt, killing all 224 passengers on board.
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The head of Russia’s security service is confirming this morning that the plane crash over Egypt last month was the result of a terrorist attack. “According to our experts, a self-made explosive device equivalent up to 1 kg of TNT was set off on board, which explains why the fragments of the aircraft were scattered over a large area”, Bortnikov briefed Putin. “One can say unambiguously that it was a terror act”, Mr Bortnikov told Mr Putin.
The information comes following the statement by Russian Federal Security Service saying the Sinai plane crash was a terrorist attack.
Investigators also found traces of explosive materials in personal items and parts of the plane.
The so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, but that was initially dismissed by both the Egyptian and Russian authorities. Russian war planes struck Raqqa, the self-declared IS capital in Syria, and other targets on Tuesday, the defense minister told Putin at a briefing later in the day.
This not the first time that Russian Federation has faced “barbarous terrorist crimes, more often without apparent causes, outside or domestic, as it was with the explosion at the railway station in Volgograd at the end of 2013”, He added: “We haven’t forgotten anything or anyone”.
“But on Monday morning we were having breakfast and Thompson must have been putting on extra planes to get people out quickly – we ended up going on a flight on Monday and got home in the early hours of Tuesday”. “We need to know all of their names”, Putin said.
“We will search for them anywhere they might hide. It must be intensified so that the criminals understand that vengeance is inevitable”, Putin said.
Gerasimov said that over the past 48 days, Russian air forces have dispatched 2,289 sorties to carry out 4,111 strikes against major infrastructure faciliti, destroying 562 control centers, 64 training camps and 54 ammunition plants.
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Russian Federation launched air strikes against IS and other terrorist groups on September 30 following a request by Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
