Moscow attack: Putin vows to punish those behind attack; Zelenskyy says ‘…just trying to blame someone else’ | 10 points

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Putin did not mention IS and Kyiv accused him and other Russian politicians of falsely linking Ukraine to the assault to stoke fervor for Russia's war in Ukraine, which recently entered its third year. 3. During his speech, he also added that the incident left over 100 individuals injured and 11 people have been detained in total.

He described the incident as "a bloody, barbaric terrorist act" and said that the four suspects were apprehended by Russian authorities while attempting to cross the border into Ukraine through a "window" that had been set up for them. The President referred to the enemy as "international terrorism" and declared his willingness to cooperate with any state that wished to eradicate it. "All the perpetrators, organisers and those who ordered this crime will be justly and inevitably punished.

Whoever they are, whoever is guiding them," Putin said. "We will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this strike against Russia, against our people." 4. After Putin's address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video that Putin was seeking ways to divert blame for a massacre at a concert hall near Moscow.

"It's obvious that Putin and other thugs are just trying to blame someone else," Zelenskiy said. “Their methods are always the same. We've seen it all before, destroyed buildings and shootings and explosions.

And they always find someone else to blame." He further added, “All of this happened yesterday, and instead of taking care of his Russian citizens and addressing them, this duffer Putin remained silent for a day, thinking about how to link this to Ukraine. Everything is entirely predictable." 5. A Russian Foreign Ministry