According to the French presidency, Emmanuel Macron will chair a defense council this Sunday evening at the Elysée on “the Moscow attack and its consequences”. The attack on Friday in a concert hall near Moscow left at least 137 dead, according to a new report. It was claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
Emmanuel Macron chairs a defense council on Sunday evening at the Elysée on “the Moscow attack and its consequences”, according to the French presidency. The Head of State is holding “at 7:30 p.m. a defense and national security council on the Moscow attack and its consequences”, it was indicated.
Russia and Ukraine blame each other
The attack on Friday at Crocus City Hall near Moscow left at least 137 dead, according to a new report. Investigators continue to search the rubble of the building housing the concert hall, ravaged by a gigantic fire started by the attackers. The attack was claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), but Moscow still did not blame it on Sunday. On Saturday, Vladimir Putin mentioned the Ukrainian trail, ensuring that the attackers had been arrested “while they were heading towards Ukraine”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused his Russian counterpart of wanting to “shift the blame” onto his country. Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the National Security Council at the White House, for her part estimated that ISIS bore “sole responsibility” for this massacre and that there was “no Ukrainian involvement”. This attack is the deadliest in Russia in twenty years, and the bloodiest to have been claimed by ISIS in Europe. ISIS, which Russia is fighting in Syria and which is also active in the Russian Caucasus, has already carried out attacks in the country since the end of the 2010s. But the group has never claimed responsibility for an attack of such magnitude. magnitude.