Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has vowed that all perpetrators of the deadly attack at Crocus City Hall in northern Krasnogorsk, Moscow, where more than 100 people were killed on Friday evening will be punished.

Putin said this during his address to Russians on the concert hall attack where about 140 people were critically injured.

While Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the assault, the Russian leader said the attackers were captured trying to cross the border to Ukraine.

“I am addressing to you in connection with the bloody, barbaric terrorist act, the victims of which were dozens of peaceful, innocent people – our compatriots, including children, teenagers, and women,” he said.

Putin who just won the recent presidential election to spend another six years of a tenure in office lauded the medical practitioners, special forces and citizens for helping at this time.

He stated, “Doctors are now fighting for the lives of the victims, those who are in serious condition. I am sure they will do everything possible and even impossible to save the lives and health of all the wounded.

Special thanks to the ambulance and air ambulance crews, special forces soldiers, firefighters, rescuers who did everything to save people’s lives, get them out from under fire, from the epicenter of fire and smoke, and avoid even greater losses.

“I cannot ignore the help of ordinary citizens, who in the first minutes after the tragedy did not remain indifferent and, along with doctors and special services, provided first aid and took the victims to hospitals…

"I express my deep, sincere condolences to all those who lost their loved ones. The whole country and our entire people are grieving with you. I declare March 24 a day of national mourning.”

Putin also said the Kremlin is working out measures to prevent further attacks after confirming that the capital and its environs.

“Additional anti-terrorist and anti-sabotage measures have been introduced in Moscow and the Moscow region, in all regions of the country. The main thing now is to prevent those who are behind this bloodbath from committing a new crime,'” Putin said.

"As for the investigation of this crime and the results of operational investigative actions, the following can currently be said.

“All four direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack, all those who shot and killed people, were found and detained. They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them from the Ukrainian side to cross the state border. A total of 11 people were detained.

"The Federal Security Service of Russia and other law enforcement agencies are working to identify and uncover the entire terrorist support base: those who provided them with transport, planned escape routes from the crime scene, prepared caches, caches of weapons and ammunition…

“It is already obvious that we are faced not just with a carefully and cynically planned terrorist attack, but with the organised mass murder of peaceful defenceless people. The criminals were cold-blooded and purposefully going to kill, shoot our citizens at point-blank range – our children.

"Like the Nazis who once carried out massacres in the occupied territories, they planned to arrange a demonstrative execution, a bloody act of intimidation. All the perpetrators, organisers and those who ordered this crime will be justly and inevitably punished.

“Whoever they are, whoever is guiding them. I repeat, we will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this strike against Russia, against our people.

"We know what the threat of terrorism is. Here we count on cooperation with all states that sincerely share our pain and are ready to really join forces in the fight against a common enemy – international terrorism – in all its manifestations. Terrorists, murderers… who do not and cannot have a nationality, face one unenviable fate – retribution and oblivion. They have no future.

"Our common duty now, our comrades–in-arms at the front, all citizens of the country, is to be together in one formation. I believe it will be so, because no one and nothing can shake our unity and will, our determination and courage, the strength of the united people of Russia.

“No one will be able to sow the poisonous seeds of discord, panic and discord in our multinational society. Russia has been through the hardest, sometimes unbearable trials more than once, but it has become even stronger. So it will be now.”

https://dailytrust.com/terror-attack-putin-fingers-ukraine-vows-punishment/

Where was Russian intelligence all these while the plans where going on.


This attack simply means no city is untouchable

Ukraine may not exist again

Putin:
The investigation and law enforcement agencies will do everything to establish all the details of the crime.

But it is already obvious that we are faced not just with a carefully, cynically planned terrorist attack, but with a prepared and organized mass murder of peaceful, defenseless people.

The criminals were cold-blooded and purposefully going to kill, shoot our citizens and our children at point-blank range. Like the Nazis who once carried out massacres in the occupied territories, they planned to arrange a demonstrative execution, a bloody act of intimidation.

All the perpetrators, organizers and customers of this crime will be justly and inevitably punished, whoever they are, whoever directed them.

I repeat, we will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this strike against Russia, against our people.

Putin:

All four direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack, all those who shot and killed people, have been found and detained.

They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them from the Ukrainian side to cross the state border.

A total of 11 people were detained. The Federal Security Service of Russia and other law enforcement agencies are working to identify and uncover the entire terrorist support base — those who provided them with transport, planned waste routes from the offensive site, prepared caches, caches of weapons and ammunition.

The terrorists deliberately set fire to the evacuation exits in order to block people inside the Crocus, writes Baza.

According to media reports, during the inspection of the premises, the staff of the operational services came to the conclusion that the criminals did not set fire to the building randomly, but chose places near the evacuation exits.

Sources say that people were lying at some doors for several people, almost like a "mountain". Because of this, the doors would not open and they had to be opened.

At first, the Ministry of Emergency Situations employees worked together as a team: there was a possibility that some of the criminals remained in the building. During the work, rescuers found a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

The special services gave the rescuers the task to collect all the found phones — the special services had information that one of the criminals had lost his mobile phone. The information was confirmed: The terrorist's smartphone was found.

Andrey Tumanov, head of the search and rescue unit of the Tsentrospas detachment of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, assessed the work on the blockage in Crocus as difficult.

"The blockage is difficult, after a fire it is always difficult, but here it almost entirely consists of chaotically scattered metal. Metal trusses of varying severity have to be cut almost everything manually - with a gas cutter and a gasoline cutter. No heavy machinery can work on site," he said.

Kim reaction

🇷🇺One of the terrorists is being interrogated in intensive care.
He doesn’t understand anything in Russian, so he had to invite a translator

@Megatron_ron

https://to. me/megatron_ron/2443

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Their plan was to blame ISIS after the terrorists were eliminated on the spot.

The plan failed when the Russians decided to let them out of Moscow, to capture them alive before they entered Ukraine.

The whole plan fell apart and now the terrorists are singing like canaries: who had recruited them, contacted them, paid them and who was supposed to welcome them in Ukraine.

#BREAKING: ⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦One of the terrorists, Rustam Azhiyev, is a citizen of Ukraine, and fought in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2022

I want to see their response