International Courant
ISTANBUL
Russia claimed on Wednesday that it discovered “Ukraine’s path” in organizing the Moscow live performance corridor assault late final month, which killed 144 individuals and injured over 550 others.
Protection Minister Sergey Shoygu spoke together with his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu by telephone “on the pressing request of the French aspect,” throughout which the latter expressed his condolences for the Crocus Metropolis Corridor assault on March 22, based on a Russian Protection Ministry assertion.
At the least 144 individuals had been killed and greater than 550 others injured when gunmen opened fireplace on individuals on the Crocus Metropolis Corridor in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast. Russia has charged 4 individuals for his or her direct involvement within the assault, and so they have been arrested along with seven others.
Nevertheless, the French protection minister persistently “tried to persuade that Ukraine and Western international locations weren’t concerned within the terrorist assault, shifting the duty to the Islamic State (Daesh/ISIS),” the assertion stated.
However Shoygu stated the investigation into the assault will probably be accomplished and that every one these accountable will probably be punished, the assertion stated, claiming that “there’s details about Ukraine’s path within the group of the terrorist assault.”
“The Kyiv regime does nothing with out the approval of Western curators. We belief that on this case, French particular companies will not be concerned in it,” the Russian protection minister was quoted as saying within the assertion.
Shoygu additionally warned that sending French troopers to Ukraine will create issues for Paris, reiterating that Moscow is able to maintain peace talks with Kyiv, it stated, including, “The beginning factors may very well be based mostly on the Istanbul peace initiative.”
“With out Russia’s participation, it might be pointless to carry a gathering in Geneva,” the assertion stated, referring to a worldwide peace summit on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 10-step peace components deliberate to be held in Switzerland later this yr.
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