“They were heading towards Ukraine where, according to preliminary data (from investigators), a ‘window’ was prepared for them to cross the border”, he accused.
Without speculating about the authorship of the attack, claimed by the Islamic State, Vladimir Putin also said, in a televised speech, that “all perpetrators, organizers and those who committed this crime will receive a well-deserved and inevitable punishment, whoever they are and regardless of who sent them.”
“A disastrous fate awaits terrorists, murderers and beasts, who do not and cannot have nationality: revenge and oblivion. They have no future,” she assured.
The Russian President also stated that he hopes to cooperate with all countries that are willing to “join forces in the fight against the common enemy, international terrorism in all its manifestations”.
The official declared a day of national mourning on Sunday for the “bloody massacre”.
At least 115 people died in Friday’s attack on a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow, claimed by the Islamic State (IS), the Investigative Commission announced today.
The attack, which Russian media began reporting at around 8:15 pm in Moscow (5:15 pm in Lisbon), was carried out by several armed individuals at the Crocus City Hall, a concert hall located in Krasnogorsk, on the outskirts of the Russian capital, AFP reported.
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