The Russian government has confirmed that it was a bomb that shot down a Russian passenger plane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board, Reuters is reporting.

According to a statement posted on the Kremlin’s website on Tuesday, Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB security services told a meeting chaired by President Vladimir Putin, that “one can unequivocally say that it was a terrorist act.”

The Airbus A-321 took off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on its way to the Russian city of St. Petersburg.

The plane, owned by Russian airline Kogalmavia, was carrying mostly Russian tourists

Initially, the plane was thought to have disappeared over Cyprus.

An Islamist militant group affiliated to ISIS said it shot down the plane.

But that claim was quickly dismissed by the Egyprian government who said it was not possible as the plane was flying at an altitude beyond the reach of shoulder-mounted missiles normally carried by the militants.

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