Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reacted to the State Department’s statement that Ukraine was not involved in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.
“The State Department said that there was no Ukrainian participation in the terrorist attack in Crocus, and that’s it . There was not, and full stop – a new form of evidence that has replaced the “hiley-likely”,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
The shooting and fire occurred on the evening of 22 March before a concert at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health of the Moscow region, more than 180 people were injured after the terrorist attack, the death toll rose to 137.
On 24 March, the Basmanny court of Moscow sent four defendants in the case into custody. All of them are charged with committing a terrorist act resulting in death as part of an organised group (paragraph “b” of part 3 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). They face life imprisonment.