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On 22 March 2024, a coordinated terrorist attack against civilians occurred at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Crocus City, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia.The attack began at around 20:00 MSK (), shortly before the Russian band Picnic was scheduled to play a sold-out show at the venue.
Krasnogorsk, Russia Crocus City Hall attack: A mass shooting and multiple explosions occurred at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast. A fire broke out during the attack. [35] [36] The Islamic State claimed responsibility. Islamic State – Khorasan Province [37] Terrorism in Russia: 26 March Suicide bombing 6 (+1) 0 Shangla ...
Following the Chechen wars, a series of terrorist attacks and clashes between Russian and Islamist forces persisted into the 2010s. Since 2017, the North Caucasus has seen a resurgence of violence, attributed to the Islamic State. [24] In 2015 the group announced that it had established a "franchise" in the North Caucasus. [25]
Investigative journalist Yulia Latynina has accused the Russian security services of staging fake terrorist attacks to report false successes in solving those cases, instead of investigating the actual terrorist attacks. [81] Russia reportedly abuses its anti-terrorism and anti-extremism laws. [82]
Russian invasion of Ukraine, Terrorism in Russia: 6–7 April Mass shooting 44: Unknown Séno Province, Burkina Faso Kourakou and Tondobi attacks: The villages of Kourakou and Tondobi were attacked by jihadists. The attacks were reprisal killings that were retaliation for villagers in the towns lynching two jihadists who had been stealing ...
One person was killed in a Russian missile attack on Zaporizhzhia. [116] Authorities ordered the evacuation of children and their families from 16 settlements in the Kupiansk area amid Russian attacks that left one person dead. [117] In Russia, a fire broke out at the Ryazan oil refinery during a drone strike, with ten drones shot down over the ...
On 3 May, Moscow's mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced a no drone zone over the city. [7]Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia's State Duma and ally of Putin, called the alleged drone attack a "terrorist attack" on Russia and compared the Ukrainian government to terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, saying that "The Nazi Kyiv regime must be recognised as a terrorist ...
The attack on Crocus City Hall, about 20 km (12 miles) from the Kremlin, comes just two weeks after the U.S. embassy in Russia warned that "extremists" had imminent plans for an attack in Moscow.