2024-03-23 12:42:43
Vladimir Putin says all attackers had been arrested, and that they were trying to flee to Ukraine
The Russian president assured Saturday, in a filmed speech to the nation, that “the four direct authors [de l’attentat]all those who shot and killed people »had been arrested while they “tried to flee and headed towards Ukraine”. “According to initial data [des enquêteurs], a passage had been prepared on the Ukrainian side for [leur permettre de] cross the border [russe] »he continued.
Vladimir Putin also assured that “all the authors, organizers and sponsors of this crime will be[aie]nt justly and inevitably punished.” “An unenviable fate awaits terrorists, assassins, subhumans (…) : punishment and oblivion. They have no future”he asserted.
On Saturday morning, the Kremlin announced the arrest of eleven people, “including four terrorists directly involved in the attack”. These four people were arrested in the Bryansk oblast, bordering Ukraine and Belarus, the Russian Investigative Committee then specified.
The Russian security services (FSB) had, for their part, affirmed that the arrested suspects had « contacts » in Ukraine, without directly accusing the kyiv authorities of having participated in the attack.
The Ukrainian authorities, for their part, denied any involvement on Friday evening, which they then repeated on Saturday.
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