Missiles Fired at Kyiv as Moscow Threatens Terror Reprisals Against the Wrong People

Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of Russia, said on Monday that those who carried out last week’s terror attack at a concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow “will be killed,” but claimed that it is “much more important” to ensure that anyone who so much as sympathized with the gunmen are put to death.

ISIS-K, an Afghanistan-based affiliate group of the so-called Islamic State, claimed responsibility for the horrific slaughter Friday at the Crocus City Hall which left at least 137 people dead—the deadliest act of terrorism on Russian soil for 20 years. Medvedev, the current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, and others have already claimed that Ukraine may have been involved in the massacre, an allegation angrily rebuffed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In a Telegram message, Medvedev congratulated those involved in capturing the alleged shooters (four men, all with visible physical injuries, were charged with terror offenses in a Russian court on Sunday). “Should we kill them? We should. And we will,” Medvedev wrote.

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