Putin says Islamists carried out concert attack, implies Ukraine had a role
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting on measures taken after a massacre in the Crocus City Hall, via a videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on 25 March 2024.
In the deadliest attack inside Russia for two decades, four men burst into the Crocus City Hall on Friday night, spraying bullets during a concert by the Soviet-era rock group Picnic. He did not directly mention Islamic State, and repeated his previous assertion that the assailants had been trying to flee to Ukraine, saying there were"many questions" to be examined.
Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of conflict in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian Ukrainians. "This group also tried to commit several actions on our own soil," he said during a visit to French Guiana.
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