Moscow attack live updates: Putin slammed for ‘absurd’ claim Ukraine linked to massacre that left 133 dead
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s claim on Saturday that the four men who attacked a concert near Moscow were heading towards Ukraine when they were detained, has been criticised as “absurd”.
Putin, addressing the nation following the attack that has left at least 133 people dead, he vowed that anyone who ordered the assault will be “justly and inevitably punished.”
Referring to the men now detained by Russian security forces, he said: “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.”
Mykhaylo Podolyak, an aide to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky earlier denied Russian security service suggestions that Ukraine was involved in the attack, calling the claims “absurd”.
Russia‘s state Investigative Committee said 133 people had been killed, including children.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest in Russia since the Beslan school siege in 2004 when terrorists killed 334 people.
