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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has offered his condolences?to Russian President Vladimir Putin following the deadly concert attack in Moscow, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Sunday.

North Korea opposes “all sorts of terrorism and nothing can justify the heinous terrorism threatening human life,” Kim said in the KCNA report. “Our people regard the misfortune and sorrow of the friendly Russian people as their own pain.”

ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq released a graphic video on Saturday that purports to show Friday’s attack at a concert hall in suburban Moscow recorded by one of the attackers, suggesting the perpetrators had a direct link to ISIS in order to be able to send the video.

CNN has geolocated it to the concert hall and notes that its identifying metadata has been erased.

The video, which is about 90 seconds long, shows four attackers with their faces blurred and voices distorted in what appears to be the Crocus City Hall complex.

The video shows one attacker signaling to another gunman, who then walks past a door where people are hiding and opens fire on them.

Bodies and blood can be seen on the floor, with fire raging at a distance.

The video also shows one of the attackers slitting the throat of a man lying on his back.

The video ends with the four attackers walking away inside the building as smoke can be seen at a distance.

On Friday, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, according to a short statement published by Amaq.

On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Ukraine was behind the attack, stating the perpetrators had “tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the border.”

Ukraine has vehemently denied any connection to Friday’s attack.

A woman lights candles at a memorial near Crocus City Hall, on the western edge of Moscow, on Saturday.

The Russian company Crocus International, which owns Crocus City Hall, expressed its deep condolences in a statement Sunday?to the victims of the terrorist attack at the concert hall in the Moscow region Friday, which left more than 130 people dead.

The statement thanked concert-goers, partners and artists for their support and assistance.

“Special thanks to the concert hall team, who acted professionally,?clearly,?and heroically?in a crisis situation, and thanks to this, managed to save most of the guests and employees who were in Crocus City Hall that evening,” it continued.

US Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House National Security Council said there is no evidence that Ukraine is behind the attack at a concert hall near Moscow.

“There is no, whatsoever, any evidence — and in fact, what we know to be the case is that ISIS-K is actually, by all accounts, responsible for what happened,” Harris said in an interview with ABC News. “What has happened is an act of terrorism and the number of people who’ve been killed is obviously a tragedy and we should all send our condolences to those families.”

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said:

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A Friday night attack at Crocus City Hall, a popular concert venue complex near Moscow, left more than 130 people killed and even more wounded after assailants stormed the venue with guns and incendiary devices. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, without providing evidence.

Four suspects involved in the attack were detained in the Bryansk region and taken to Moscow, where they are now in the custody of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Russian state media TASS reported Saturday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “miserable” Russian President Vladimir Putin waitedovernight before publicly addressing Russians, only to accuseUkraine of having a hand in the terror attack at a concert hall near Moscow.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks at a press conference in Berlin on February 16.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “miserable” Russian President Vladimir Putin waitedovernight before publicly addressing Russians, only to accuseUkraine of having a hand in the terror attack at a concert hall near Moscow.

On Saturday, Putin?told the Russian people that?the perpetrators of the Crocus City Hall attack had “tried to hide and moved towards?Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the border.”

Zelensky and several Ukrainian officials have vehemently denied Ukraine has any kind of involvement in the attack.

In his nightly address, Zelensky also said that Russians “have come to Ukraine, burn our cities – and try to blame Ukraine.”

Zelensky added that if the Russian people do “not ask any questions to their security and intelligence agencies, then Putin will try to turn such a situation to his personal advantage again.”

More background: The terror group ISIS claimed responsibility for Russia’s attack, according to a short statement published by?ISIS-affiliated news?agency Amaq on Telegram Friday. ISIS?has not provided evidence to support the claim.

Earlier this week, Putin had dismissed warnings by the US embassy that there could be terrorist attacks on large groups,?telling the Federal Security Service (FSB) that the embassy warnings were “provocative” and “outright blackmail.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds a briefing in Washington, DC, on March 22.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Saturday that the United States “strongly condemns” the terrorist attack at a concert venue complex near Moscow that left at least 133 people dead.

She added that ISIS, which has claimed responsibility for the attack without providing evidence, is a “common terrorist enemy that must be defeated everywhere.”

Four suspects in Friday’s terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall were detained in the Bryansk region and taken to Moscow, where they are now in the custody of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Russian state media TASS reported Saturday.

The suspects were brought in two prisoner transport vehicles, which are still in the courtyard of the committee, a TASS correspondent reported. This indicates that the suspects are being interrogated and the investigation is ongoing, according to TASS.

In the coming days,?investigators are?expected to file a court motion asking for imprisonment?as the chosen preventative measure. All four suspects face life imprisonment, TASS reports.

Russia postponed an international soccer friendly match against Paraguay following the terrorist attack near Moscow, the Russian Football Union (RFU) announced Saturday.?

The match will be held at a later date, but not in March, due to the requirement of national team players having to return to their clubs as FIFA’s window ends on Tuesday, Dyukov said.

Earlier Saturday, the?RFU postponed?matches in all of the union’s competitions for the weekend due to the terrorist attacks.?

Some context: Russia’s international and club teams are currently banned from playing in any FIFA or UEFA-sanctioned soccer matches due the invasion of Ukraine. However, the international team is allowed to play in friendly matches against other countries.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres?speaks to the media at El Arish International Airport in Egypt on March 23.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack near Moscow that left more than 130 people dead, stressing ISIS is a significant global threat at a press conference Saturday at El Arish International Airport in Egypt.

Guterres called for intensified international efforts to combat the terrorist organization and prevent future strikes worldwide.

“And we encourage all countries to work with each other in order to make sure that ISIS will not have the capacity to strike again anywhere else in the world. ISIS is a terrorist organization that needs to be fought with determination, with a lot of international cooperation,” he continued.

More background: The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, without providing evidence.

Starting in November, there has been a steady stream of intelligence that ISIS-K was determined to attack in Russia, according to two sources familiar with the intelligence. It was “fairly specific,” and the US intelligence community did indeed warn Russia, one of the sources said. But it’s not clear if this is directly tied to a March 7?warning by the US embassy in?Moscow, which said “extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings” in the capital city. ?

Over the last month, Russia has thwarted several ISIS-related incidents in March alone, according to state media agency RIA Novosti.

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, on March 22.

Leaders around the world have expressed their condolences and condemnation of the terror attack that took place on the Crocus City complex near Moscow on Friday night.

Crocus City Hall near Moscow is pictured on March 23.

Defense Intelligence of Ukraine spokesperson Andrii Yusov firmly denied his country had anything to do with the terror attacks at a concert hall in Russia’s Moscow region.

Earlier Saturday, Russian President Vladimir?Putin told the?Russian people?that?the perpetrators had “tried to hide and moved towards?Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the border.” A handful of Russian officials have suggested without evidence that Ukraine may have been involved in the attack as well.

Yusov called Putin’s comments “completely false and absurd.”

He said that Russia had disregarded warnings, such as those from the US Embassy under its “duty to warn” policy, that terrorist attacks could be possible in large crowds. Putin had told Russia’s Federal?Security Service on Tuesday that warnings from the US were “provocative” and “outright blackmail.”

A new satellite image, taken by Umbra Space’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR), shows just how badly the fire that started during the terror attack on Friday night damaged the Crocus City Hall complex.?

In the image, taken at 9:26 a.m. local time Saturday, a large hole that is over 150 feet wide in diameter is seen in the roof of the complex directly over where the concert venue is located.??

About SAR images: They are not like normal satellite images.?The SAR images are created by a satellite transmitting radar beams capable of passing?through clouds, like the ones currently preventing satellites from imaging the area.?Those radar beams bounce off objects on the ground and echo back to the satellite. What they bounce off of is then mapped out by the satellite, which is then translated into the image.??

Anastasia Rodionova, a survivor of the Moscow region’s Crocus City Hall attack, told Reuters Saturday that the armed assailants were “gunning down everyone methodically in silence” inside the venue on Friday night.

“It is unbelievable. You understand only now that you are lucky, really lucky. I came home; my coat was just covered in blood,” she added.

Another survivor of the attack, Margarita, who did not provide her last name, told Reuters that “the gunshots were going on and on.”

“We went down to some kind of ground floor, some dark room, and I saw only ‘exit’ word shining in the darkness, and we just did not know whether to run or not. Who is there in the dark? What is there in the dark?” she said.

Russian state news agency RIA Novosti published on Telegram the purported confession of one of the men apprehended in connection with the attack on the Crocus City Hall complex.?

In the brief video, a man with a bloodied bandaged head speaks in halting Russian. He gives his name and says he is 30 years old.?

His interrogator asks him where the weapons used in the attack were dropped off, whether near Moscow or closer to the venue site. He replies, “I don’t know the city, ask my friends, they know.”

RIA also posted images of three of the alleged attackers after they were detained, images that match videos uploaded on unofficial channels earlier Saturday showing the men being apprehended in Bryansk region. No image or video of the fourth alleged attacker has been published on Russian state media.?

In an accompanying commentary, RIA Novosti said the alleged attackers all speak Russian “extremely poorly,” with one of the men speaking “in Tajik through an interpreter.”

It added that one of the men said he’d been promised by an unnamed person who called himself “an assistant to the preacher” a half-million rubles (about $5,000) to carry out the attack. He later gave a different figure.

RIA Novosti said one of the alleged attackers had mentioned returning to Russia from Turkey earlier this month. The men lived together in a hostel in the north of Moscow, and two of them met only “10-12 days ago,” according to RIA. The car they drove to Crocus City Hall and then used to escape had been bought through a family connection, it reported.

CNN cannot independently verify the veracity of the RIA Novosti report or the statements made by the alleged attacker, which may have been made under duress.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department in Washington, DC, on December 21.

The United States “strongly condemns” the Moscow concert venue shooting that has left more than 130 people dead, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Saturday.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack but did not provide evidence to support the claim.?

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the attack a “barbaric terrorist act.”

Gunmen in an?entertainment venue. Bodies lying on the cold concrete. Horror that such murder could strike the safety of the Moscow bubble.

These were all present in the?horrific aftermath of Friday night’s savage attack?outside Crocus City Hall?just as they were almost 22 years ago?when I was outside the Dubrovka Theatre,?where?Chechen gunmen took 800 hostages, and a standoff ended with a special forces raid.

While the theatre attacks of 2002 marked just one of many horrific low points in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Islamist extremism, last night showed that the brutal past has come back to haunt the Kremlin – if, indeed, it ever left.

Yet Putin faces the same sort of Islamist enemy as 2002, in a world transformed. If indeed ISIS-K –?the militant group’s Afghan branch –?were responsible, as their claim and advance warnings from US officials suggest,?it means?a new generation of extremists have Russia in their sights,?following Russia’s?bloody suppression of Islamism in?the?south.

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Russian state media is reporting that, according to the interior ministry, “all terrorists detained in the Bryansk region are foreign citizens.”

Russian authorities earlier said that four people suspected of being directly involved in the attack on Crocus City were apprehended in Bryansk in southwestern Russia and were being brought to Moscow.

Belarusian special services helped Russia prevent the “terrorists” who allegedly carried out the deadly Friday night attack on a concert venue complex from escaping across the border Friday night, the country’s ambassador in Moscow said.

“Since yesterday, active interaction has been carried out through special services. The head of the State Security Committee is in direct contact with his colleague,” Ambassador Dmitry Krutoy said Saturday, according to Belarus’ official news agency BELTA.

“And in fact, the main task of last night was to prevent terrorists from escaping across our common border. This task has been completed.”

Some background: Russian authorities said the four men who allegedly carried out the attack on the Crocus City complex on Friday evening near Moscow were apprehended early Saturday in the region of Bryansk, a large region of southwest Russia which borders Ukraine and Belarus, without giving the exact location. The capital city of the region is some five hours drive from Moscow.

Law enforcement officers stand guard outside Crocus City Hall concert venue, following a shooting in Moscow on March 22.

Russia is reeling on Saturday following a deadly assault on the outskirts of the capital that saw armed attackers enter a popular concert venue complex and open fire.

The incident is the deadliest terror attack in Moscow in decades.

Here are the latest developments:

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow on March 20.

Barely a week since Vladimir Putin secured his fifth presidential term, Russia has been plunged into carnage.

The appalling attack on the vast Crocus City Hall concert venue and shopping complex near Moscow – claimed by ISIS – left more than 100 people dead.

This is hardly the stability and security for which so many Russians voted for Putin. For years, the Kremlin strongman has been cast as a leader able to guarantee order in this vast, turbulent country.

But Russia today seems more insecure and volatile than at any point in Putin’s 24 years in power. The Kremlin’s brutal war in Ukraine, now in its third horrific year, has cost Russians dearly.

Ukrainian drone strikes and cross border raids by Ukraine-based Russian militias continue apace. The mutinous uprising last year of Yevgeny Prigozhin was a shocking, unprecedented challenge to Kremlin authority.

But now, the focus is firmly on the apparent reappearance in Russia of jihadists, unrelated to the Ukraine war or domestic opposition to the Kremlin. To make matters worse, the US and other Western governments warned of intelligence suggesting such an attack in early March.

Perhaps it was distrust, with US-Russian relations at such an historic low. It could also have been that the US intelligence was just too vague or not actionable. But for a leader who has promised security and stability to Russians, a large-scale terror attack on home soil is a powerful blow to his image.

A woman lays flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, on Saturday, March 23.

The death toll in the Friday Moscow attack has risen to at least 133, the Russian Investigative Committee said.

The Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, published an image Saturday purporting to show the four men who attacked the Crocus City complex near Moscow on Friday.

None of the men are identifiable in the image, which was published by the ISIS-affiliated Amaq agency. All of them are wearing balaclavas and the rest of their faces are blurred.

ISIS described the attack as the “fiercest in years,” according to a translation of the message by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors terror groups’ propaganda.

Amaq provided details of the attack, saying three fighters attacked the gathered crowd at the venue with guns and knives while the fourth threw incendiary devices. It said the attack was preceded by an intensive surveillance operation of the venue.

It added that “the attack comes within the normal context of the raging war between the Islamic State and countries fighting Islam,” according to the translation by SITE.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in Moscow on March 20.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed deep condolences following Friday’s attack at a concert venue near Moscow, calling it a “barbaric terrorist act” in a video statement released Saturday.

He said the perpetrators “tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the border.”

Several Ukrainian agencies have categorically denied any connection with the attack, and the Russian officials who have alleged Ukrainian involvement haven’t offered any evidence.

Putin declared Sunday a day of mourning for the victims of the attack and described it as a bloody and barbaric act, which killed dozens of peaceful, innocent people. He expressed gratitude to emergency service workers who “did everything to save people’s lives, to get them out from under fire, from the epicenter of fire and smoke,” and to avoid even greater losses.

He promised the government would provide the necessary assistance to everyone, and added that additional anti-terrorist and anti-sabotage measures are being introduced in Moscow and the Moscow region.

Members of the Russian Emergencies Ministry clear rubble at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Moscow on March 23.

Firefighters continue to combat fires on the roof, second and third floors of the Crocus City complex near Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has said, after a terror attack at the popular concert venue left at least 115 people dead.

According to the Ministry, the total area affected by the flames is 500 square meters.

Rescue teams have already cleared 41 cubic meters of rubble at the scene, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

A handful of Russian officials have suggested without evidence that Ukraine may have been involved in Friday’s attack on the Crocus City complex near Moscow.

Following the announcement that the four men alleged to have carried out the attack were apprehended near Russia’s border with Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Telegram: “Now we know in which country these bloody bastards planned to hide from persecution – Ukraine.”

The head of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee, Andrey Kartapolov, told state news agency RIA Novosti that “Ukraine and its patrons are the main stakeholders in the terrorist attack at Crocus,” adding that “if information about the Ukrainian trace in the terrorist attack is confirmed, there must be a clear answer on the battlefield.”

Several Ukrainian agencies have categorically denied any connection with the attack.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Friday: “We consider such accusations to be a planned provocation by the Kremlin to further fuel anti-Ukrainian hysteria in Russian society, create conditions for increased mobilization of Russian citizens to participate in the criminal aggression against our country and discredit Ukraine in the eyes of the international community.”

Ukrainian Defense Intelligence alleged Friday – without giving evidence that the attack was planned by Russian special services to justify increased strikes on Ukraine.

A view shows the burned Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on Saturday.

Nearly 500 personnel are working to dismantle rubble at the scene of the arena attack in Moscow, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Saturday.

“In the morning, they started the dismantling of the most difficult part: the auditorium, where the ceiling partially collapsed,” the ministry said. “The work will be carried out throughout the day.”

The Russian Investigative Committee has said that, as work continues at the site, the number who died in the attack would likely rise. At least 115 people have so far been confirmed dead. The names of 37 people who died in the attack were published Saturday by the regional government’s Health Ministry.

As work continues at the site, more testimony has emerged from people who were at the complex on Friday evening. One woman said on Instagram: “They [the assailants] were standing there at the exit. We got up and started walking. They saw us. Some of them ran back and started shooting at people. I fell on the floor and pretended I was dead. And the girl next to me was killed.”

“Then the flames flared up and they closed the door. They probably couldn’t lock it. I lay breathing under the door. After some time, I crawled out, looked around, there was smoke everywhere, and I crawled towards the exit,” she said.

The Kremlin is cancelling mass events scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, according to state media RIA Novosti, and many museums are temporarily closed.

Russian state media published images and video Saturday of queues at blood-donor centers in Moscow after Friday’s attack.

The Russian Investigative Committee has updated the death toll in the Crocus City attack to 115.

A list of the 121 people injured in the attack on Friday evening has been published by the Health Ministry of the Moscow region.

A woman lays flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on Saturday.

The Russian Ministry of Health has announced that 44 of the people who were injured in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on Friday are in serious condition, including two children.

“The condition of 16 victims of the terrorist attack in Crocus, including one child, is extremely serious,” a senior official at the Ministry said.

The governor of Moscow region, Andrey Vorobyov, said Saturday that the victims of the terror attack would receive financial compensation from the region and city governments.

Vorobyov said the relatives of each of those who died would receive three million rubles ($32,500), while those injured and in hospital would receive one million rubles ($10,840).

“Children registered in the Moscow region whose father or mother died in the tragedy will also receive monthly payments. In addition, we will compensate everyone for burial expenses and resolve all legal issues,” Vorobyov added.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned the “terrible terrorist attack on innocent concertgoers in Moscow” in a statement on Saturday.

“Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and all those injured,” Scholz added.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Saturday said she mourned with the families of the concertgoers who were “murdered in cold blood.”

“We condemn cowardly, inhumane terror - anywhere. Our sympathy goes out to the people of Russia,” Baerbock said in a post on X.

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Saturday said the United Kingdom condemned “in the strongest terms the deadly terrorist attack” in Moscow that took place on Friday night.

“We offer our heartfelt condolences and express our deepest sympathy to the families of the many victims,” Cameron wrote on X. “Nothing can ever justify such horrific violence,” he added.

The four men suspected of carrying out the attack on the Crocus City complex near Moscow on Friday were arrested while trying to cross Russia’s border with Ukraine, the Russian Investigative Committee has said.

“Special services and law enforcement agencies in the Bryansk region, near the border with Ukraine, detained four suspects from among those who committed a terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall,” the Committee said.

According to state media RIA Novosti, “the weapons used by the terrorists were prepared in advance in a cache, the FSB [Security Service] reported.”

“After the terrorist attack, the criminals intended to cross the border of the Russian Federation and Ukraine and had relevant contacts on the Ukrainian side, the FSB said,” according to RIA.

State-owned Russian news agency TASS also reported that the assailants had “contacts on the Ukrainian side. The terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall was carefully planned.”

Neither agency specified the nature of the alleged contacts.

Ukraine has strenuously denied any connection with the attack. One official, Mykhailo Podolyak said in a post on X on Friday that Ukraine “has never resorted to the use of terrorist methods. It is always pointless.”

Earlier, unofficial sources had published images of a white Renault car - similar to that caught on video outside the hall on Friday - that had been stopped on a highway south of the city of Bryansk in the early hours of Saturday. The images showed it had been extensively damaged.

Law enforcement officers carry out the body of a victim at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on Saturday.

The death toll from the attack on the Crocus City complex has risen to 93, according to the Russian Investigative Committee.?

“Preliminary results of the inspection of the premises of the concert hall indicate that the terrorists used automatic weapons during the attack, which, along with the ammunition they left behind, were discovered and seized by (investigators).”?

“Based on this material evidence, ballistic, genetic and fingerprint examinations are currently being carried out,” it added.?

“It was also established that the terrorists used a flammable liquid to set fire to the premises of the concert hall.”

Earlier Saturday, the governor of the Moscow region, Andrey Vorobyov, said there were still 115 injured people, including five children, in hospitals in Moscow and Moscow Oblast.

The Investigative Committee said inspection of the concert hall was continuing. Emergency services were still clearing the rubble, CCTV footage was being studied and “work has begun with the victims.”

The head of the Russian Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, has told President Vladimir Putin that 11 people have been detained in connection with the attack on the Crocus complex near Moscow on Friday, according to Russian state media.

The Kremlin reported that those detained included “all four terrorists directly involved in the terrorist attack in Crocus,” according to TASS and other state media outlets.

aw enforcement officers are seen deployed outside the burning Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on Friday.

The US warned Moscow that ISIS militants were determined to target Russia in the days before assailants stormed the Crocus City Hall in an attack that killed scores of people, but President Vladimir Putin rejected the advice as “provocative.”

Gunmen stormed the concert hall near Moscow on Friday, opening fire and throwing an incendiary device in the worst terrorist attack on the Russian capital in decades.

Isis has?claimed responsibility?for the attack.

Experts said the scale of the carnage – some of which was captured in video footage obtained by CNN showing crowds of people cowering behind cushioned seats as gunshots echoed in the vast hall – would be deeply embarrassing for the Russian leader, who had championed a message of national security just a week earlier when winning the country’s stage-managed election.

Not only had Russian intelligence services failed to prevent the attack, they said, but Putin had failed to heed warnings from the United States that extremists were plotting to target Moscow.

Earlier this month, the US embassy in Russia had said it was “monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow,” including concerts, and it warned US citizens to avoid such places.

US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the US government had “shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its longstanding ‘duty to warn’ policy.”

But in a speech Tuesday, Putin had blasted the American warnings as “provocative,” saying “these actions resemble outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize?our society.”

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Pakistan condemned the deadly attack at a concert hall in Moscow and expressed solidarity with Russia, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Saturday denounced “the terrorist attack” that took place near Moscow, which killed at least 60 people, according to Saudi state-run SPA news.

MSB sent “a message of condolences and sympathy,” to Russian President Vladimir Putin “for the victims of the terrorist attack,” SPA said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the deadly attack at a concert hall in Moscow and expressed solidarity with the Russian people in a?post?on X on Saturday.

The US has no reason to doubt ISIS’ claim of responsibility for the attack at the concert venue near Moscow Friday, according to a US official.

Russian President Vladimir Putin wished a speedy recovery to all those injured people in the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall?that killed at least 60 people, the state-run RIA-Novosti news agency said on Saturday.

Putin has also “conveyed his gratitude to the doctors,” RIA added.?

Russian singer Shaman said he will pay for the funerals of the victims and treatments of those injured during the terror attack at the venue.

“My people, any troubles and misfortunes have always united our country. They have made Russia tougher and stronger. It will not be possible to frighten and break us this time either,” he said.?

Correction: This story has been updated after an earlier version incorrectly stated that Shaman is a singer in the band Picnic.

A woman walks to lay flowers at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on Saturday.

At least 60 people died as a result of the terrorist attack in Crocus on Friday, Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a report on Saturday.?

There were also 145 people sent to hospitals, according to the Moscow Region’s Health Ministry, Russian state media?TASS reported.?

Over the last month, Russia has thwarted several ISIS related incidents in March alone, according to Russia’s state media agency RIA-Novosti.

Below is a list of different reported incidents across Russia that Russian authorities say involved people connected to ISIS, according to RIA:

Ambulances and vehicles of?Russian emergency services are seen parked outside the burning Crocus City Hall concert venue outside Moscow on Friday.

Starting in November, there has been a steady stream of intelligence that ISIS-K was determined to attack in Russia, according to two sources familiar with the intelligence.

It was “fairly specific” intelligence, rising to the level of a duty to warn and the US intelligence community did indeed warn Russia, one of the sources said. But it’s not clear if this is directly tied to the March 7?warning by the US embassy in?Moscow.?

Russian state media?reported?on March 7 that the FSB prevented an ISIS attack on a synagogue in?Moscow, according to Reuters. The ISIS attackers were killed in a gunfight, the reports said.

A US official told CNN that the US?is working to determine who is culpable for the attack at a Moscow concert venue.

Adrienne Watson, National Security Council?spokesperson, issued a statement Friday on the US warning Russia about an attack.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he “strongly condemns the terrorist attack claimed by the Islamic State” that left at least 40 people dead and more than 100 injured in a Moscow concert hall Friday, according to AFP and Reuters citing the Elysee Palace.

The United Nations Security Council condemned the “heinous and cowardly” attack at the Crocus concert hall in Krasnogorsk, in Moscow, on Friday, which left 40 dead and more than 140 people injured.

The members of the UNSC urged all States to cooperate with the Russian government to “hold perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice.”

“The members of the Security Council reiterated that any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed,” it said.

Emergency services personnel and servicemen are seen outside the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on Friday.

Following the deadliest terror attack on Moscow in decades,?115 people have been hospitalized of which 60 are in a “serious condition,” according to Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko.?

United Nations Secretary-General?Antonio Guterres has condemned “in the strongest possible terms today’s terrorist attack at a concert hall outside Moscow,” according to a statement released by deputy spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq.?

Moscow City Duma Chairman Alexey Shaposhnikov late Friday called on Muscovites to come forward and give blood to help treat the dozens of wounded following Russia’s deadliest terror attack in decades.

?Shaposhnikov?listed several blood center facilities in the Moscow area that will accept donors throughout the weekend.

Firefighters continue to put out the fire in?Crocus City Hall?as a result of an?attack at a popular concert venue complex near Moscow Friday,?according?to state media TASS.

The armed attackers who stormed a popular concert venue complex near Moscow and opened fire” allegedly fled in a white Renault car,” the state-run RIA-Novosti news?agency said on Friday.?

ISIS terror group has claimed responsibility for Russia’s attack, according to a short statement published by ISIS-affiliated news?agency Amaq on Telegram on Friday.

ISIS has not provided evidence to support the claim.

The French foreign ministry has said, “The images reaching us from?Moscow?are terrible.”

Russian state media TASS reported ?there are children among the victims in the Crocus City Hall attack, citing the?Moscow?Children’s Ombudsman.

TASS?did not provide further information.

The US Embassy in?Moscow?“is shocked by reports of a terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in?Moscow.”

President Joe Biden is being “kept informed” of the events unfolding in?Moscow, the White House said Friday, after an apparent terror attack at a concert hall.?

Kirby reiterated that the State Department had reissued a warning to Americans in the region to “just stay away from populated areas and certainly gathering places like concert halls and shopping malls.”?

“Obviously, our thoughts and prayers are to all those innocent people who are affected by this,” he added.?

Asked about a State Department warning earlier this month to Russia about potential terrorist activity, Kirby said he was “going to be very careful here in these early hours,” and that it wasn’t clear if that warning and this attack were connected.?

Kirby said there was “no indication, no sense at all, that that the Ukrainians were involved in this in any way shape or form.” Ukraine has denied it was involved in the attack.?

“The president’s being kept informed of the events,” he said. “We’re very much in a monitoring mode right now as the information is still so fresh, and our ability… to get granular details is somewhat going to be challenged given that it’s?Moscow?we’re talking about, but the national security team will keep the president up to date.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin called statements made by the US embassy earlier this week about potential terror attacks in?Moscow?“provocative.”

In a speech on Tuesday, Putin said in a speech to the FSB, “All these actions resemble outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize?our society. You are well aware of them, so I will not go into details at this point.”

The US Embassy said on March 7th that Americans should “avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours” and?“that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in?Moscow.”

On Friday evening, the Crocus City Hall on the outskirts of the Russian capital became the scene of a terror incident where at least 40 people had been killed and 100 wounded, according to Russian state media.

Ukraine “certainly has nothing to do with the shooting/explosions,” in the Crocus City Hall in?Moscow?Region, Russia, Ukrainian presidential adviser?Mykhailo Podolyak said?in a post on X on Friday.??

According to the Kremlin, within the first minutes of what happened at Crocus City Hall, Russian President Vladimir Putin was informed that the shooting had begun.

An unnamed male witness who survived the attack at the Crocus City Hall Friday said he?saw the gunmen enter the concert hall where they “started shooting everyone.”

The man says that “in the end,” the attackers threw a Molotov cocktail, and “everything was set on fire.”

“We were led to the exit. Turned out, the exit was locked. We ran all over Crocus City, trying to find an exit, but to no avail. We went into the basement of the Crocus City Hall and waited for the Emergency Services (MChS) and got out,” he said.

Another witness, Nikolai, who did not provide a last name, told Reuters, “I’ve seen wounded, I’ve seen people lying down when the shooting happened.?(PERSON ASKING: Can you approximately count how many people were wounded?)?I can not. More than a dozen.”

And another witness, Andrei, who also did not give a last name, told Reuters, “We’ve been at the furthest corner, it all was far away. We’ve only seen crowd, but there was no panic, everyone walked calmly. Some sat down as they walked out, but there was not panic.”

The suspects who attacked Crocus City Hall burst into the concert hall and began shooting people point-blank, reports a Russian state media RIA Novosti correspondent from the scene who witnessed the incident.

According to him, a few minutes before 20:00?Moscow?time before the start of the concert, at least three men in camouflage and without masks burst into the hall through the stalls.

They shot people point-blank and threw incendiary bombs, he reported.

Those who managed to get out of the hall were pointed to the emergency exits by the complex’s security and the guards remained in place, the RIA Novosti reporter said.

The band, Picnic that was due to perform at the Crocus City Hall was not harmed during the shooting incident, law enforcement agencies tell Russian state media TASS.

Band manager Yuri Chernyshevsky also confirmed this information.

“I can confirm that the musicians are unharmed,” he said, according to TASS.

At least 40 people were killed, and more than 100 were injured, according to preliminary information from the?FSB, Russian state media?TASS reports.

Meanwhile, Russia 24 says the roof of the Crocus City Hall?building is partially collapsed.

The Main Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case regarding a terrorist attack in the?Moscow?region.

Based on the incident in the Crocus City Hall concert hall, the Main Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorist act).

An investigative team from the central office of the Russian Investigative Committee went to the scene of the incident.

Russian state media TASS reports that two helicopters are at the scene discharging water to try to put out at the fire at Crocus City Hall.

Four armed individuals are seen in new video, which appears to show?a mass shooting at a shopping center in?Moscow.?

CNN has geolocated the video, which first began to circulate on social media on Friday evening.?

In the video, the four individuals can be seen, several?carrying long rifles, opening fire at civilians in the shopping center?just outside of the Crocus City Hall concert venue.

The civilians in the video were huddled up against the wall as the armed individuals began firing dozens of shots at?them.?A number of people?can be seen falling to the ground.?

During the?shooting, one of?the armed individuals is?seen shooting out one of the glass doors at the concert venue?and moving inside.?

Additional video geolocated by CNN shows individuals wearing similar clothing firing inside the concert venue building.?Gunfire can also be heard?in video taken inside the concert hall.

The Russia Prosecutor General’s Office says the number of victims in Crocus City Hall is being clarified. A fire started in the entertainment center building and citizens are being evacuated, according to Russian state media Ria Novosti.

The Russian FSB?reports that as a result of the shooting in Crocus City Hall, there are dead and wounded,??according to Russian state media TASS.

Three armed men opened fire inside a concert hall in?Moscow?region on Friday, according to Russian state media agencies?TASS and RIA Novosti.

There are believed to be dead and wounded per Russian state media but they did not specify any numbers.?

RIA-Novosti said that the three men “threw a grenade or an incendiary bomb, which started a fire” in the concert hall.

?More than 50 ambulance teams were sent to Krasnogorsk, a town in the?Moscow?region, to provide medical care to all those in need, the?Moscow?Region Ministry of Health told Russian state media RIA Novosti.

The first victims of the attack in the?Moscow?region were admitted to medical institutions and Russian Health Minister?Mikhail Murashko?is keeping the situation under control, according to the assistant minister, Russian state media RIA Novosti reports.

Moscow?Mayor Sergei Sobyanin?said on Telegram that he is canceling all sports, cultural and other public events in?Moscow?this weekend.?

The General Prosecutor’s Office of Russia says, “Unidentified people in camouflage broke into Crocus City Hall and started shooting before the start of the concert,” according to Russian state media TASS.

A shooting incident occurred in the Crocus City Hall concert venue in?Moscow?region, Russian state news agency Tass reported on Friday.

The shooting could have been carried out from a machine gun, TASS said.?