Putin does not currently plan to meet with the victims' families, the Kremlin says

Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet scheduled a meeting with the families of the victims of the Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow, the Kremlin said today. “If contacts are needed, we will inform you,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov replied to a question from reporters about whether the Russian president would meet the relatives of the victims of this attack, which claimed the lives of 143 people. Putin said on Monday that the attack, Russia's deadliest in two decades, was carried out by “radical Islamists”, but Russian authorities accused Ukrainian and Western intelligence services of “facilitating” it. The jihadist organization Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack. The Russian president spoke publicly the day after this attack, which took place on Friday night. Again according to Peskov, Putin did not go to the scene of the attack, so as not to “disrupt the work” of the rescue teams. “Concerning […]
Source: News Beast

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