Russian president Vladimir Putin on Monday blamed the deadliest attack on the country in more than a decade on Islamist militants, as he also tried to pin responsibility on Ukraine.
Though he acknowledged the attack on a Moscow concert hall on Friday was conducted by “radical Islamists”, Putin also said the “evil act can only be another link in a whole chain of attempts by those who have been fighting with our country since 2014 via the Nazi Kyiv regime”.
Putin’s comments came after French President Emmanuel Macron and EU officials called on him not to use the attack on the concert venue, which has been claimed by the Isis militant group, as a pretext to expand the war in Ukraine.
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