Observer in a Black Sea Resort Town
On Sunday 23 June, which was the Orthodox holiday of Trinity, a public holiday in Russia, three coordinated attacks took place.
The first was a Ukrainian-US attack on a popular Black Sea resort near Sevastopol in Russia’s Crimea, which killed four, including two children playing on a beach. Over 150 people were wounded. In this Ukrainian-US strike, five ATACMS ballistic missiles–requiring American servicemen to operate them–were fired at a popular beach near Sevastopol. Four missiles were intercepted but the explosion of the cluster warhead in the fifth missile in the air resulted in many civilian casualties.
Attending to ca
sualities yesterday in a Black Sea resort town near Sevastopol after cluster munitions from a US made ATACMS missile exploded above the beach resort.
ATACMS – the US Army Tactical Missile Systems which have a range of 190 miles and are loaded with cluster munitions which explode in the air to kill as many civilians as possible.
The second and third terrorist attacks, which were synchronized, took place in the evening around 6pm in the regional capital of Makhachkala and in Derbent city, 120 km to the south along the coast of the Caspian Sea.
In each city, an Orthodox church and a synagogue were targeted in the coordinated attacks which were carried out by a group of international terrorists. The terrorists used firebombs to set the church and synagogue on fire. Security officials resisting the terrorists were killed.
At 5.51pm, the police received the first report of an injury to an employee in Derbent. After this, the shooters arrived at the Orthodox Church on Lenin Street, entered the church and slit Father Nikolay Kotelnikov’s throat in a most brutal, gruesome, and evil attack.
Father Nikolay Kotelnikov who was murdered on 23 June 2024 in an orthodox church in Derbent after his throat was slit by international terrorists.
Father Nikolay had served in the church for 40 years, taught at a local Sunday school, and taught Orthodoxy classes. He was the confessor of the Makhachkala diocese and the rector of the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Derbent. The priest was considered ‘a wise and sympathetic person’ who had ‘ spoken about the need to build friendly relations with other faiths.’ He is survived by his wife, three daughters and grandchildren.
After murdering Father Nikolay and setting the Orthodox church on fire, the attackers then moved to a synagogue. There they set fire to the building and continued exchanging fire with the police.
Fire-bombing of the Orthodox church in Derbent after Father Nikolay had his throat slit by the attackers
Around the same time, a report was received about a fire in the Synagogue in Makhachkala. Nearby on Ermoshkin Street, a shootout with the police began. Militants shot at cars with law enforcement officers.
According to the Head of Dagestan, 15 law enforcement officers were killed in the attacks in Derbent and Makhachkala, and another 17 were injured. Five militants were killed by special forces – three in Makhachkala and two in Derbent. Two of them were the sons of the head of the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, Magomed Omarov, who was detained and taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. His sons Osman and Adil Omarov, and his nephew, took part in an attack on police officers and a synagogue in Makhachkala. The three were killed by law enforcement officers. Searches were carried out in Omarov’s house.
Magomed Omarov, the head of the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, now relieved of his duties after his two sons were involved in the terrorist attack in Makhachkala.
Osman and Adil Omarov, killed by law enforcement officers.
Video footage showed the attackers holding American AR-15s during an attack on police officers in Makhachkala. Russian authorities describe the assailants as members of an international terrorist organization. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks. Operational search activities continue in Dagestan as security officers identify accomplices of terrorists.
American AR-15 – the weapon of choice for mass murderers.
As these events were unfolding, four people were killed and 147 wounded on a packed beach in Makhachkala. The attackers were caught and taken away. 19 worshippers barricaded themselves in one church but were later freed. After attacking the church and the synagogue with automatic weapons and firebombs, the remaining attackers fled in a white Volkswagen Polo. Russian authorities are seeking the assailants in the car to apprehend or neutralize them.
According to Dagestan authorities, one of the killed militants was MMA fighter Gadzhimurad Kagirov.
As indicated earlier, no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Russian authorities have been careful to not attribute the attacks specifically to ISIS or Al-Qaeda, but rather to an international terrorist group. Evidence gathered over the next few weeks will identify the terrorist group involved in these attacks.
If it turns out ISIS were the perpetrators, how do we explain that after an 8-month genocide in Gaza, ISIS have not responded to the Gaza genocide, but rather are carrying out attacks in Russia?
Is it not strange that almost all ISIS attacks today take place in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Russia? Is it not strange that ISIS are not carrying out terrorist attacks in Europe or the US, inspite of all the refugees coming in to these countries?
Why would ISIS attack a Russian orthodox church in Dagestan when there is a genocide taking place in Gaza? Why would ISIS carry out attacks inside Russia when Russia has constantly supported the Palestinians in the UN? If ISIS were truly Muslim extremists, why are they farting around attacking an orthodox church in Dagestan at a time when the greatest genocide of our time is taking place in Gaza?
It doesn’t make sense.
But it does make sense if we see that the US controls ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Today, it is the United States government that determines where ISIS and Al Qaeda will strike next. It is stunningly obvious that ISIS are working for the Western Empire.
Three days of mourning (25 to 26 June) have been declared by decree, signed by the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov.
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