The picture in Dabiq shows a Schweppes Gold soda can and what appears to be a detonator and a switch.
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“FSB and law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation are taking measures to detect the people involved in the crime”, he said, according to the TASS news agency.
Within hours after Moscow concluded that terrorists took down the jetliner, Putin launched massive strikes Tuesday on Raqqa, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital in northern Syria.
Their attacks have focused mainly on Egyptian security forces since the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 and unleashed a bloody crackdown on his followers.
IS claims the explosive was smuggled aboard the flight for St Petersburg by exploiting a security weakness at Sharm al-Sheikh airport.
It said it initially planned to bring down a plane from one of the countries participating in the U.S.-led coalition that has been striking it in Syria and Iraq.
United States and British intelligence has long suggested the crash was caused by an act of terror, with a member of an investigation team saying they were “90% sure” that a noise heard on the black box was a bomb. The group also published a picture of plane debris with images of passports superimposed on top, which are said to have belonged to the “dead crusaders”.
Explosives expert Chris Owen, from Alford Technologies, said the volume of the can means it could contain a half kilogram, or 500 grams, of an explosive “which is just sufficient to bring down an airliner”.
“We should not apply time limits; we should know them all by name”. The two men were described in the previous issue as “for sale”.
The group did not say how Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, 48, from Oslo, and Fan Jinghui, 50, from Beijing, were captured.
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said his government could not confirm the killing, but said “we have no reasons to doubt it”, according to the AP.
In a previous edition of the magazine, the group advertised the two hostages as being “for sale”, in effect a macabre ransom demand.
Egypt says a team probing the disaster has yet to find the cause.
But the militants made a decision to instead target the Russian plane departing the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after Moscow began an air campaign in Syria in late September, according to the English-language publication.
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Both France and Russian Federation have promised retribution for the attacks. The bomb shows a soda can, a blasting cap, and a toggle-switch detonator, which may also point to someone physically flipping the switch on the plane instead of a remote detonation.
