Putin calls for revenge against those who ordered the “savage” attack on Moscow

The Russian President, Vladimir Putintoday condemned Friday’s “savage” terrorist attack on a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscowwhere at least 133 people died, and claimed revenge against the perpetrators of the attack, claimed by Islamic stateat the same time that it highlights that the perpetrators were prepared to escape from Ukrainian territory to that country.

During a televised speech, the head of Kremlin He highlighted that, in addition to arresting the four terrorists and “in total” seven other accomplices, security forces are trying to find the bases of the terrorists and those who helped them with transportation, the escape route and provided them with a hiding place for the terrorists. weapons and ammunition.

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“All authors, organizers and those who committed this crime will receive a deserved and irremediable punishment, whoever they are and without considering that they were sent”, Putin said during a televised speech.

He added that Moscow identify and punish “to all those who are behind the terrorists, who engineered this atrocity, this coup against Russiafor our people.”

Putin did not speculate about the intellectual authors of the attack, although he mentioned that the four terrorists arrested They tried to escape across the Ukrainian border.

“They tried to escape and were going to Ukrainewhere, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared on the Ukrainian side for them to cross the border”He explained.

O Ukrainian presidency on Friday he categorically denied that Kyiv has something to do with the attack on Russian territory, a refutation supported by U.S.

He recalled that Russians know firsthand what terrorist threatin a clear allusion to the attacks carried out years ago by Islamic guerrillas in the Caucasus.

“We hope to cooperate with all countries that sincerely share our pain and are practically ready to join forces in the fight against the common enemy, the international terrorism in all its manifestationshe claimed.

The Russian leader highlighted that the authorities have already reinforced anti-terrorism measures in the capital, adjacent region of Moscowwhere the accident occurred, and in the rest of the country.

“To the terrorists, Murderers and animals, who do not and cannot have nationality, a disastrous fate awaits them: revenge and oblivion. They have no future”, he commented.

Furthermore, he announced that Sunday will be a day of national mourning for the greatest terrorist attack suffered by this country since the Beslan massacre in 2004.

Putin, who came to power in 1999 with a hard line against terrorism as his calling card, lamented that the victims included children, teenagers and women.

“No one can sow poisonous seed from the discordpanic and division in our multiethnic society“, he said.

And he called all the citizens and the “comrades at the front” in Ukraine to be united and stressed that no one will be able to “to break”the determination and strength of the Russian people.

As reported by the Instruction Committee of Russia133 people died on Friday in the attack carried out by a group of armed men at the concert hall Croco City Hall from the city of Krasnogorsknorthwest of Moscow.

In turn, authorities admitted that the death toll could increase “considerably” as rescue efforts progress through the rubble of the burned building.

Source: Elcomercio

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