Their IDs were found in their bags after the incident, along with a receipt for the purchase of two axes some 20 minutes prior to the attack.
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A separate security source confirmed to the RIA Novosti state news agency that the attackers resembled the men in the video, while adding that the investigation was considering various motives.
The Islamic State militant group has asserted responsibility for an attack on Russian traffic police that occurred near Moscow.
Two assailants had attacked a traffic post on a motorway in Balashika near Moscow on Wednesday.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said the suspects were Uthman Mardalov and Salim Israilov and ISIS hailed them as “soldiers of the Islamic State”, the Daily Mail reported.
The radicals claimed in a video beforehand that they were attacking Russian Federation due to the government’s participation in the airstrikes against IS targets in Iraq and Syria, aimed at pushing back the terror group.
Both attackers were shot dead in the assault.
“We have taken the path of jihad on the orders of our Amir Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi”, one of the purported attackers said on the video. Revenge for you bombing our brothers, because you kill our brothers every day in Syria and Iraq. Officers opened fire in response, but the second attacker grabbed an officer’s gun and injured another officer.
Islamic State called on its members to carry out jihad or holy war in Russian Federation in a YouTube video last month, after which the Kremlin said such threats would not affect its fight against worldwide terrorism.
All 224 people on board Metrojet Flight 9268 died – including 219 Russian passengers and crew – after a bomb was detonated in the hold as it flew over the Sinai Peninsula.
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This happened just after Russian fight planes started bombing IS held areas in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
