"A bomb had ripped apart a Russian passenger jet over Egypt last month, and promised to hunt down those responsible and intensify its air strikes on Islamist militants in Syria in response." the Kremlin said for the first time on Tuesday.
Until Tuesday, Russia had played down assertions from Western countries that the crash, which killed 224 people on Oct. 31, was a terrorist incident, saying it was important to let the official investigation run its course.
But in a late night Kremlin meeting on Monday, three days after Islamist gunmen and bombers killed 129 people in Paris, Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB security service, told a meeting chaired by President Vladimir Putin that traces of foreign-made explosives had been found on fragments of the downed plane and on passengers’ personal belongings.
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