Putin calls shooting at Moscow concert hall 'purposeful massacre'

Putin calls shooting at Moscow concert hall 'purposeful massacre'

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday slammed Friday's shooting at the Crocus City Concert Hall in Moscow region as a "purposeful massacre" aimed at sowing discord in society, CE Report quotes Anadolu Agency

"The criminals, purposefully and in cold blood killed, shot our citizens and our children at point-blank range," Putin said in a televised address to the nation on Saturday. "Like the Nazis, who once carried out massacres in the occupied territories, they planned to arrange a demonstrative execution, a bloody act of intimidation."

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