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Hollywood actor Rebel Wilson joins Richard for a fun-packed whizz round Florence in a mini-break mixing art, action, gelato, a drive in a classic Alfa Romeo, and some tripe. HOTEL:

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FOOD AND DRINK:

Meracato Centrale Market for the Tripe Sandwich: www.mercatocentrale.it/en/mercato-centrale-florence   In Fabbrica Restaurant, dinner in the silver workshop: www.restaurant.pampaloni.com   Cappuccino and budino di riso at Ditta Artigianale: www.dittaartigianale.it   Find Gelato Pasco at: ​Gelateria Pasco, Piazza di Santa Maria Novella ​ ​ACTIVITIES: 

Florence Cathedral: www.ilgrandemuseodelduomo.it   Meracato Centrale Market for the Tripe Sandwich: www.mercatocentrale.it   Uffizi Gallery featuring The Birth of Venus by  Botticelli: www.uffizi.org   Accademia Gallery, featuring Michelangelo’s David: www.accademia.org   Rafting on Arno river: www.firenzerafting.it/en   Hire yourself a classic Alfa Romeo: www.chianticlassiccar.com   Truffle Hunter Walk!: www.trufflehunter.net   Hidden Florence App for a free walking tour with fictional tour guide Giovani!: hiddenflorence.org   Find the wax anatomical collection  at La Specola, The Museum of Zoology and Natural History: www.msn.unifi.it

EpiSode One 

Comedian Rob Beckett joins Richard Ayoade in Russia's cultural capital, for a post-Soviet itinerary including an armoured tank, caviar, vodka, and a herring in a fur coat. HOTEL: 

The Official State Hermitage

www.thehermitagehotel.ru/en/ FOOD AND DRINK:  Soviet Café Kvartirka: www.reca.rest/restaurants/KvartirkaVO   The world’s only Caviar Bar in the Grand Hotel Europe: www.belmond.com/grand-hotel   Singer Café: Nevsky avenue, 28, Saint-Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, 191186 ACTIVITIES:  New Holland Ice Skating: www.newhollandsp.ru/en   Spa: www.thehermitagehotel.ru/en   Swan Lake: nab. Lebyazhyey kanavki, Saint-Petersburg, Russia   Horse and Cart Palace Square: Many available around the city   Metro station: Admiralteyskaya Coin Toss CHIZHIK-PYZHIK: Fontanka river embankment, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 191023 ​Hermitage Musuem: www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps Ice Sculpture Festival at Peter and Paul Fortress, St Petersburg  

EpiSode TWO 

Richard and comedian Aisling Bea make a whirlwind tour of Hungary's fairy-tale capital, with selfies, goulash, cake, pubs, liquor, and a game of chess at the thermal baths. HOTEL:

www.lavendercircus.com/ FOOD AND DRINK:  Kehli Restaurant: www.kehli.hu/   Chimney Cake: Töltött Kürtős, Erzsébet tér 13, Budapest, Hungary, 1051   Ruin Bar:  ​en.szimpla.hu/szimpla-garden   Richard and Aisling tried Hungarian sparkling wine at the Piknik Pavillion: piknikpavilon.hu ACTIVITIES:  Fungarian tour: fungarian.hu Children’s railway: www.gyermekvasut.hu   Chair lift: www.bkv.hu/en/zugliget_chairlift   Széchenyi Baths: www.szechenyibath.hu Funicular: www.bkv.hu/en/buda_castle_funicular

EpiSode Three

Richard Ayoade packs his case and heads to the Canaries to discover what lies beyond the all-inclusive resorts of the volcanic island of Tenerife.  Making the trip from LA to join him is writer, director and actor, Lena Dunham. HOTEL:

Hotel Emblemático Casa Casilda hotel-emblematico-casa-casilda.tacoronte.hotel-tenerife.net/en/ FOOD AND DRINK: Guachinche: Casa Lito – Calle Tijarafe, 35, 38390 Sta Úrsula, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain ‘Barraquito’ accompanied by Morcilla Dulce (sweet black pudding) at : www.lahierbita.com ACTIVITIES: Whale watching Tour: tenerifesailingcharters.es/sailingenglish Stargazing: www.volcanoteide.com/en   Golf lesson: www.golfcostaadeje.com/en   Auditorio de Tenerife: Av de la Constitucion, 1, 38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain   Mount Teide National Park, including the Roque Cinchado and the Las Canadas Luna Landscape ​Santa Cruz Sculpture trail: Rambla De Santa Cruz, Tenerife 

EpiSode Four

Richard and Rhod Gilbert's high-speed visit to Florida's famous hot spot takes in art, art deco, alligators, speedboats, an airboat tour of the everglades - and dominoes. HOTEL:

The Raleigh Hotel  raleighhotel.com FOOD AND DRINK: They had lunch at Joe Stone’s Crab:  www.joesstonecrab.com They stopped for a cold pressed juice at Jugo Fresh. ACTIVITIES: Speed boat tour with Captain Mike:  www.speedboattours.com Bingo with Miss Toto:  www.gramps.com   Air-boat ride in the Everglades:  coopertownairboats.com   Yoga on the beach:  3rdstreetbeachyoga.com   Wynwood Walls:  www.thewynwoodwalls.com El Cristo Cuban Restaurant, The Ball and Chain Bar and Maximo Park are all on SW 8th Street in Miami's Little Havana neighbourhood

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Since 2015, there’s been no need to go on a minibreak to a cultural European destination. Richard Ayoade and Joe Lycett have gone for us. They’ve waited at airport security lines displaying their miniature toothpaste tube in a clear plastic bag. They’ve bought mystery crisps from railway vending machines. They’ve been to the museums, tried the local delicacies and gone on the sightseeing tours, so that we could stay luxuriously put.

Indeed, for a good chunk of 2020, staying put was the only option, which is when Travel Man: 48 Hours In… really came into its own. During lockdown, you could spin the globe, choose a location, load up All4 (as it was then known), and have a packed weekend there from the comfort of your sofa. All the experience of short haul travel with none of the having-to-mime-migraine-symptoms-to-a-Hungarian-pharmacist. Bliss!

Now Travel Man: 48 Hours In… is back with four new Joe Lycett-fronted episodes starting on Friday March 22 at 8.30 p.m. on Channel 4 and Channel 4.com. Joe’s guests this time around are comedians Alan Davies, Desiree Burch, Adam Buxton and Jessica Fostekew. While Davies, Burch and Fostekew are all Travel Man first-timers, this is a repeat visit for Adam Buxton, who also went with Richard Ayoade to Lisbon back in 2016.

Respectively, the new travel guests are being taken to Italy’s Trieste, Finland’s Rovaniemi, Czechia’s Prague, and the Canary Island of Lanzarote. Expect a visit to the wind museum, scenes of eating sausages out of skulls, volcanic wine and some sleigh-riding (not necessarily in that order).

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To celebrate the show’s return, let’s salute some of its most entertaining trips from previous series.

10. Hamburg with Bob Mortimer

Adding “…with Bob Mortimer ” to anything makes it better. (Try it. The One Show… With Bob Mortimer. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire… With Bob Mortimer. Year 10 Parents’ Evening… With Bob Mortimer.) That’s definitely the case on this 48-hour stint in Hamburg, the high point of which has to be the visit to the German Food Additives Museum. It starts off niche, and just gets more niche from there as Mortimer encourages Ayoade to ingest out-of-date E numbers. A solid best-of list entry.

9. Amsterdam with Joe Lycett

Here’s the point at which Travel Man ’s producers must have scribbled down the note ‘ Joe Lycett – new host if Richard leaves?’ The two have more in common than you may think – they’re both sardonic clothes horses who run on irony – but while Ayoade’s persona leaves little room to express genuine delight, Lycett is a joy machine. We see it here when he’s confronted by a Dutch street organ that plays Wham. Immediately, he starts to jig, hands held aloft screaming “I feel so alive!”, while Ayoade nods along barely perceptibly. A strong audition for the main part.

8. Moscow with Greg Davies

Worthy of celebration solely for the local outfit Greg Davies wears at the traditional steam bath: a kind of toga worn with – as the Taskmaster describes it – a hat that makes him look like a sinister children’s character. Add to the outfit the ‘being whipped by two men using birch branches’ treatment that Davies volunteers to undergo, and we are entertained. See also: space food.

7. Split with Aisling Bea

This is Aisling Bea’s second time as a guest on the show and both are good fun, but this pips the other because it features what is officially the most adorable Travel Man sequence of all time: Bea and Joe Lycett walking extremely sweet rescue dogs from a local animal shelter along a dedicated dog beach. As Lycett puts it, “it’s the cutest day I’ve ever had and that’s saying a lot.” If a tiny puppy stand-up paddle-boarding doesn’t do it for you, then there’s also strudel-rolling, a fish cookery class, and a museum of frog taxidermy that genuinely makes you worry for humanity. Clearly mates who get on, these two are great company.

6. Copenhagen with Noel Fielding

The happiest Goth on Earth in the happiest place on Earth? That’s what you get with Noel Fielding in the Danish capital. The Mighty Boosh star giggles his way through open sandwiches, bakery windows, a beer museum and a tiny rollercoaster. They both love the fairground, and both appear to provoke genuine antipathy from their cycling tour leader Mike the Bike (he doesn’t like trouble), who makes every effort to ditch them mid-tour. The chemistry is good, the mood is… as relaxed as Richard Ayoade appears to get (key quote from Fielding: “I thought this was going to be a holiday, not one of your weird, anally retentive fright-fests.”) And they’ll always have Galoppen.

5. Berlin with Roisin Conaty

In which: they travel in a jazz lift, very much almost die on the road in what was voted the World’s Worst Car of 1975, improvise a blues jam session, and go to a bowling alley. Not a bowling alley but a kegelbahen, where Richard Ayoade appears to reveal genuine anger and a surprisingly intense competitive streak (plus a serviceable Daniel Day Lewis impersonation) when he refuses to leave until he gets a strike.

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Comedian, writer and actor Roisin Conaty makes an excellent audience for Ayoade’s patter, awkward Kula Shaker jokes, and the break’s Cold War theme in general. He’s great, she’s great, and it just works.

4. Hong Kong with Jon Hamm

An extended-length Christmas special, this is a joy of an hour. Watch as the former star of Mad Men and the former host of The Crystal Maze take a ludicrously short journey in a Rolls Royce, have their portraits ripped out of paper by an artist named “Uncle Man”, and get a foot massage – or, as Ayoade describes it, “an onslaught of unparalleled brutality”. (Squirming and grimacing under the touch of his masseur and telling him to stay the heck away is as aggressive as you’ll see the man). The best bit? When they get measured for dandy bespoke suits with which they are clearly – and rightly – overjoyed.

3. Ibiza with Jessica Knappett

Companionable banter is all very well, but sometimes it’s fun to witness a clash of personalities so extreme you wonder if it’ll end in violence. And that clash isn’t just Ayoade (sardonic, reserved) vs Knappett (wahey-the-lads! ‘BEEFA), but Ayoade vs Ibiza itself. Put simply, the party island/hippy hangout is his nightmare, and this episode features genuine appeals to camera for rescue. From what? From a gong bath, a surfing machine, the hotel where Wham’s Club Tropicana video was filmed, and from a hotel manager who insists on taking them to a place “where membership is a smiling face.” Despite Knappett’s appeals for Ayoade to have an open mind and go with the flow, his mind remains resolutely closed and stressed, and it’s quite a lot of fun to watch.

2. Miami with Rhod Gilbert

There’s no personality clash here. Ayoade and Gilbert are like two complementary grape varieties blended into the same refreshingly dry wine. It’s a wine that you’d think would be too acerbic for Miami’s brand of relaxed Cuban cool, but you’d be wrong. Humidity aside, they both have a great time on the Florida coast. They eat crab meat lollipops that cause Ayoade to break out in a spontaneous smile, and which Gilbert describes as the most amazing meal he’s ever had in his life. They wear crab bibs, are rubbish at beach yoga, nervous of alligators, live it up at a domino game and sip drink thick, sweet coffee and freshly squeezed juice you feel like you can taste. A beautiful combination.

1. Vienna with Chris O’Dowd

The best Travel Man episodes are the ones where chemistry between host and guest really chimes, and here, it’s unimprovable. This trip to Vienna with his The IT Crowd co-star Chris O’Dowd is the happiest Richard Ayoade has ever looked on screen – possibly the happiest he’s ever been in life? Perhaps that’s down to the relief of not having been the one to have accidentally smashed a snow globe in Vienna’s national snow globe museum (O’Dowd is now banned from Austria). Or perhaps he’s just relaxed, having fun and enjoying making his pal laugh over partially fermented grape juice and cheesy sausage. They eat apple strudel, drive hotrods, explore the sewers and ride a Ferris wheel as part of a locations tour for The Third Man , and generally have a lovely, lovely time.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

Dublin with Mawaan Rizwan who is cute as a button and really did not enjoy wild swimming.

Milan with Morgana Robinson whose superior pasta-making skills leave Ayoade humiliated.

Iceland with Bill Bailey for boiling eggs in a geyser, the Icelandic punk jam and the hot tub hats.

Stockholm with Sally Phillips for Ayoade’s obvious discomfort and Phillips’ obvious joy at the ABBA museum.

Porto with Nish Kumar for Nish’s excitement about his religious wax buttocks.

Dubrovnik with Stephen Merchant for them going on the Game of Thrones locations tour without having seen Game of Thrones .

Travel Man: 48 Hours In… airs on Fridays at 8.30pm on Channel 4. All episodes are available to stream in the UK on Channel4.com . Series one to seven are available to stream on Plex and Prime Video in the US.

Louisa Mellor | @Louisa_Mellor

Louisa Mellor is the Den of Geek UK TV Editor. She has written about TV, film and books for Den of Geek since 2010, and for…

How the British see us: Channel 4 filmed the popular "Travel Man" from Split

British comedian  Joe Lycett  and an Irish comedian, actress and writer with a British address,  Aisling Bea , spent 48 hours in Split. This is the filming of the second episode of the 10th season of the humorous travel show  "Travel Man: 48 hours in…" , which was recently broadcast on a popular British channel  Channel 4 .

This 30-minute episode is entirely dedicated to Split, a popular Croatian destination where the main actors Joe and Aisling, among other things, tried SUP, visited Froggyland, tasted Split's eno-gastronomic delicacies, and enjoyed a walk with the dogs. in the organized tour of the Foundation for the Protection of Animals Split.

By the way, the Travel Man show regularly visits attractive and interesting world destinations with which, as of this season, Split stands side by side. This show was filmed in 2019 and in Dubrovnik when the emphasis was, among other things, on the filming locations of Game of Thrones.

- After two years with very little travel, the Travel Man episode dedicated to Split focuses on exactly what the British have been longing for for a long time, namely summer activities, the sea and culture, all under the clear and sunny skies of Split. , she stated  Darija Reić , Director of the CNTB Representation in London. 

The Travel Man show is watched by over 2 million viewers in the UK, with an additional multi-million echo in countries such as the US, Canada, Australia and India.

Let us add that the episode in Split was filmed with the cooperation and assistance of the Croatian Tourist Board and with the support of the Split-Dalmatia County Tourist Board and the City of Split Tourist Board.

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British comedian  Joe Lycett  and Irish comedian, actress, and writer with a British address,  Aisling Bea , spent 48 hours in Split, reports Slobodna Dalmacija . This is the second episode of the 10th season of the humorous travel show “Travel Man: 48 hours in …”, which was recently broadcast on the popular British channel Channel 4. This 30-minute episode is entirely dedicated to Split, a popular Croatian destination where the main actors, Joe and Aisling, among other things, tried SUP, visited Froggyland, tasted Split’s eno-gastronomic delicacies, and enjoyed a walk with dogs in an organized tour of the Foundation for the Protection of Animals Split, praised the  Croatian Tourist Board .

“After two years with very little travel, the Travel Man episode dedicated to Split focuses on exactly what the British have longed for, and these are summer activities, the sea, and culture, all under the clear and sunny skies of Split”, said   Darija Reić , director of the CNTB Representation in London.  

The Travel Man show is watched by over 2 million viewers in the UK, with an additional multi-million reverberation in countries such as the US, Canada, Australia, and India.

Critics of the  Daily Mail  had numerous objections to the work of Joe and Aisling, so the episode only received a 2/5 rating, while on IMDB it received a 4/10 rating. However, it should be noted that only one rating has been left on the IMDB so far and that episodes from previous seasons mostly had a rating of 7/10.

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Drone attacks in Moscow’s glittering business district leave residents on edge

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The glittering towers of the Moscow City business district dominate the skyline of the Russian capital. The sleek glass-and-steel buildings — designed to attract investment amid an economic boom in the early 2000s — are a dramatic, modern contrast to the rest of the more than 800-year-old city.

Now they are a sign of its vulnerability, following a series of drone attacks that rattled some Muscovites and brought the war in Ukraine home to the seat of Russian power .

The attacks on Sunday and Tuesday aren’t the first to hit Moscow — a drone even struck the Kremlin harmlessly in May. But these latest blasts, which caused no casualties but blew out windows on a high-rise building and sent glass cascading to the streets, seemed particularly unsettling.

“It’s very frightening because you wake up at night hearing explosions,” said a woman who identified herself only as Ulfiya as she walked her dog, adding that she lived in a nearby building. Like other Muscovites interviewed by the Associated Press, she did not identify herself further out of fear of retribution or for her personal safety.

Another resident, who gave her name as Ekaterina, said Tuesday’s blast “sounded like thunder.”

“I think for the first time, I got really scared,” she said. “I don’t understand how people in a war zone can live like this every day and not go mad.”

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The Russian Defense Ministry said it shot down two Ukrainian drones outside Moscow and had electronically jammed another, sending it crashing into the IQ-Quarter skyscraper that houses government offices including the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications and the Ministry of Industry and Trade — the same building that was hit Sunday.

A cordon went up around the building and personnel from the fire department and the Russian Investigative Committee were at the scene. Hours later, residents strolled through the district along the Moscow River or sat on benches in the sunshine. By about 1 p.m. Tuesday, workers were already starting to replace damaged windows.

The business district, a 10-minute subway ride west of the Kremlin, is home to some of Moscow’s flashiest restaurants, offering far-reaching views of the capital and a menu of upscale fare like three types of caviar, shellfish from Russia’s Far East and French cuisine.

But there was no escaping the grim news.

While Russian state television has largely played down the strikes, one channel sandwiched a segment on how Moscow’s air defenses successfully intercepted the drones in between reports highlighting Russian attacks on Ukraine.

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Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky, said in Ukraine that Moscow “is rapidly getting used to a full-fledged war,” without confirming or denying Kyiv’s involvement in the drone attacks that in recent days have struck from the capital to the Crimean Peninsula.

After Sunday’s strike, the Kremlin said security would be ramped up.

Still, the size of the drone that hit the Moscow City district led analysts to question the effectiveness of the capital’s air defenses, suggesting it could have been launched from Ukraine.

“If this is the case, this would be rather embarrassing for Russia’s air defenses. If a drone has been in Russian airspace for hours, air defenses should have picked it up earlier and shot it down earlier,” said Ulrike Franke, an expert in drones and military technology at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

While they haven’t caused much physical damage, bringing the drone campaign to Moscow “blows holes in Russia’s narrative that the war on Ukraine is successful and that it is being prosecuted far away from any consequences for the Russian people themselves,” said Keir Giles, a Russia expert at the Chatham House think tank in London.

“That is something which is going to be harder and harder for Russia’s propaganda machine to explain away,” he said.

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A Muscovite who identified himself to the AP only as Eldar summed up the strikes this way: “We attack them, they attack us. And it’s obvious that they will succeed somewhere, and we will succeed somewhere. We should try to strengthen the defense.”

In Odintsovo, where some of the drones were downed about 18 miles southwest of the capital, some residents discussed the events on their local Telegram channel.

One woman talked about hearing noises that turned out to be a car or improperly closed trash containers, and seeing what she thought were drones but actually were a flock of birds, a plane and a wind-blown plastic bag.

“How is it possible to live like this?” she asked the group.

“Stop creating panic,” one member admonished her.

“If you hear a noise, be happy because it hasn’t hit you,” added another.

Burrows reported from Tallinn, Estonia.

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Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko says the men suspected of carrying out the terrorist attack near Moscow last Friday initially tried to flee to Belarus.

According to state-run news outlet Belta, Mr Lukashenko said his country had heavily increased security at its border with Russia after the shooting massacre, meaning the attackers "understood it was impossible to enter Belarus".

He said they had changed their plans and "turned away and went to the section of the Ukrainian-Russian border".

The four men - all Tajik citizens - are accused of an attack on a Moscow concert hall which left at least 139 people dead.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed Ukraine for being behind the attack, saying the terrorists were caught while fleeing to Ukraine, questioning "who was waiting for them there".

On Tuesday, Russia's FSB chief suggested the US and UK could have been involved.

Islamic State's Afghan offshoot ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Ukraine has sunk or disabled a third of Russia's warships in the Black Sea in just over two years of war, according to Ukraine's navy spokesman.

Only two of around a dozen Russian missile-carrying warships have been sunk, however, and Ukraine plans to continue its strikes, Dmytro Pletenchuk added.

"Our ultimate goal is complete absence of military ships of the so-called Russian Federation in the Azov and Black Sea regions," he told The Associated Press.

He was speaking after Ukraine hit the Russian landing ship Konstantin Olshansky at Sevastopol. The ship had been part of Ukraine's navy before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.

Ukraine's drone and missile strike success has been a big morale boost for a military that is still struggling on the ground against a much larger Russian military.

Two Russian banks have decided to write off debt for those killed or seriously injured by shelling or drones in regions bordering Ukraine.

Sovcombank and Home Bank said they would write off loans to victims in places such as Belgorod, 25 miles from the border, where scores of civilians have been killed since February 2022.

Sovcombank confirmed its move in a statement expressing condolences to those affected by the shelling and drone attacks.

"This support applies to immediate family members: parents, spouses, children who live together with the client," it added.

The move is similar to that made by more than 20 lenders after last week's concert hall attack in Moscow, which killed at least 139 people and wounded 180.

This photo is the aftermath of yesterday's attack on Odesa.

The region's governor Oleh Kiper now says 10 people were injured when a Russian ballistic missile hit the city.

Seven of those people were still receiving treatment today.

Russian forces used a "double tap" tactic, with a second missile striking shortly after the first, with the aim of injuring or killing first responders, said Nataliia Humeniuk, a spokesperson of Ukraine's Southern Operational Command.

Mr Kiper said about 300 apartments were damaged along with the Palace Of Sports.

Ukraine has received almost £700m from the International Monetary Fund, according to the country's prime minister.

Writing on Telegram, Denys Shmyhal said the funding was the third trance of financial support from the Extended Fund Facility's financing programme.

"The funds will help cover priority budget expenditures and maintain macro-financial stability," he said.

"Ukraine continues to successfully fulfil its obligations to partners."

Ukraine's EFF agreement, granting access to £12.3bn, was initially approved on 31 March last year, the Kyiv Post reported.

Partners have promised Ukraine a further £96bn by 2027, with an expected £4.3bn from the IMF in 2024.

We have some more details on the claims made by FSB security agency head Alexander Bortnikov.

The story, originally published by state news agency TASS, has Mr Bortnikov saying Western and Ukrainian services helped radical Islamists to orchestrate the attack on the Moscow concert hall.

Our team in Moscow translated his words as: "It's possible - I think so."

"In any case we are now talking about the facts that we have, this is general information, but there are certain developments."

Mr Bortnikov claimed Ukraine has been trying to prove its capability, TASS reported.

"What is it expected to do to demonstrate its capability?

"It is expected to carry out sabotage and terrorist acts in the rear.

"This is what both the chiefs of Ukraine's special services and the British special services are aiming at.

"US special services have repeatedly mentioned this, too," he said.

Mr Bortnikov said there was a large amount of information in the public space "showing that the West and Ukraine are out to cause greater harm to our country".

"There have been drone strikes, strikes by uncrewed boats at sea, and incursions by groups of saboteurs and terrorist organisations into our territory."

He repeated Vladimir Putin's claim that the attackers planned to escape across the Ukrainian border - something Kyiv has denied.

"I'll let you in on a little secret: they were going to be greeted as heroes on the other side," Mr Bortnikov said, according to the report.

Senior Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak has responded to Russia's accusations against Ukraine.

He said on X: "The lies are officially spread by (Russian security council secretary Nikolai) Patrushev, and after that by the 'head of FSB' (Alexander) Bortnikov."

Russia's FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov suggested Britain, the US and Ukraine were behind the Moscow concert hall attack.

Russia's FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov has suggested Britain, the US and Ukraine could have been behind the Moscow concert hall attack which killed more than 130 people on Friday.

That comes from Russian state news outlet TASS.

Another state news outlet RIA quoted him as saying Western intelligence services and Ukraine needed the attack to sow panic in Russia.

According to our team in Russia, he was asked if the US, Britain and Ukraine were behind the attack and he said: "It's possible, I think so."

Twenty-two people are in serious condition in hospital, according to Russia's health minister. TASS reported two of them are children.

Four men have appeared in court accused of being the gunmen, all of them from Tajikistan.

Ukraine has already denied any involvement.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility and the US has said its intelligence indicates ISIS-K - an Afghan branch of IS - was responsible.

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