National day of mourning after terrorist attack in Russia

The terrorist militia Islamic State had already claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday night, but Russian President Putin saw a “Ukrainian trace” behind the attack. Kiev denied any involvement in the crime.

Abroad, Serbia and Nicaragua joined the commemoration with their own days of mourning. At least 133 people were killed in the attack on Friday evening, including three children. More victims could still be found under rubble.

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The four main suspects in the terrorist attack were brought to the Russian capital for questioning on Saturday evening. As the state agency Tass also reported, the four men were driven in a highly secured motorcade from the Bryansk region in the south of the country, where they were arrested, to the so-called investigative committee.

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An application for an arrest warrant should be submitted to court in the coming days. They all face life imprisonment, Tass said. Eleven suspects were arrested after the attack.

Zelensky rejects responsibility for the attack

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj categorically rejected Putin’s attempts to attribute shared responsibility for the attack to Ukraine with unsubstantiated accusations. “Of course, after what happened in Moscow yesterday, Putin and the other bastards are just trying to blame someone else,” Zelensky said in his daily video address on Saturday evening. The Russian side always uses the same methods. “And they always blame others.”

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Zelensky accused Russia of spreading terror itself. Russians are coming to Ukraine to burn down cities “and trying to shift the blame to Ukraine.” They tortured and raped people – and blamed the victims. “They have brought hundreds of thousands of their own terrorists here, on Ukrainian soil, to fight against us and they don’t care what is happening in their country.”

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