Published March 25, 2024
Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people.
All four appeared to have been beaten and one was brought to court in a wheelchair. They were charged with committing an act of terrorism.
The Islamic State group, or IS, said it carried out Friday’s outrage at Crocus City Hall and posted video evidence.
Russian officials have claimed, without evidence, Ukrainian involvement. Kyiv says the claim is “absurd”.
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SOURCE: www.bbc.com
RELATED: Putin wants to blame Ukraine for Moscow Attack – Zelensky
Published March 23, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin of seeking to “shift the blame” onto Kyiv for the Moscow concert hall attack that killed 133 people.
“What happened yesterday in Moscow is obvious: Putin and the other scum are just trying to blame it on someone else,” Zelensky announced, after Putin said the suspects had been fleeing towards Ukraine.
“They always have the same methods,” Zelensky added.
In a televised address earlier Saturday, President Putin said the four gunmen arrested for the deadly attack were “traveling towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the state border.”
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SOURCE: www.themoscowtimes.com
RELATED: Zelensky says Putin seeking ways to divert blame for concert massacre near Moscow
Ukrainian president says Russian claims of ties to Kyiv ‘absolutely predictable’, after Putin claimed suspects fled toward Ukraine
A massive blaze is seen over the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, March 22, 2024. (Sergei Vedyashkin/Moscow News Agency via AP)
Published March 23, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was seeking ways to divert blame for a massacre at a concert hall near Moscow on Friday.
He said it was “absolutely predictable” that Putin had remained silent for 24 hours before tying the shooting rampage to Ukraine and that the hundreds of thousands of “terrorists” Putin had sent to fight and be killed in the war in Ukraine would “definitely be enough” to stop terrorists at home.
He accused Putin of seeking to “shift the blame” onto Kyiv for the attack that killed at least 133 people, according to Russian authorities, with hundreds more wounded.
Kyiv has strongly denied any involvement in Friday’s assault on the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, and the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate claimed responsibility.
