Each Moscow’s allies and its geopolitical rivals have joined the refrain of condemnation within the wake of the Crocus Metropolis Corridor assault
Phrases of comfort continued to return to Russia from all around the world on Saturday, a day after a serious terrorist assault at a live performance corridor exterior Moscow. Friday’s assault on Crocus Metropolis Corridor in Moscow Area claimed greater than 130 lives and left greater than 150 individuals injured.
Messages of help for the Russian individuals have been prolonged by each nationwide governments and worldwide organizations alike. UN Secretary Common Antonio Guterres slammed the assault “within the strongest attainable phrases,” a UN spokesman, Farhan Haq, mentioned in a press release.
The UN chief “conveys his deep condolences to the bereaved households, the individuals, and the Authorities of the Russian Federation,” the spokesman added. The UN Safety Council additionally issued a press release on the incident, the place it known as on all nations to “cooperate actively” with Moscow to carry all these behind “these reprehensible acts of terrorism accountable and produce them to justice.”
The worldwide physique’s human rights chief, Volker Turk, additionally mentioned that “nothing can justify such an assault.”
EU Council President Charles Michel mentioned that he “condemns the horrible terrorist assault in Moscow,” including that “the lack of harmless lives all over the place is a human tragedy.” The bloc’s high diplomat, Josep Borrell, additionally condemned “within the strongest phrases the heinous assault perpetrated exterior Moscow.” “The worldwide neighborhood should stay firmly united in opposition to the scourge of terrorism,” he mentioned.
NATO spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah mentioned that the members of the US-led bloc “unequivocally condemn the assaults focusing on concertgoers in Moscow.” “Our deepest condolences to the victims and their households,” she mentioned in a press release on X (previously Twitter), including that “nothing can justify such heinous crimes.”
“The US strongly condemns yesterday’s lethal terrorist assault in Moscow,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned in a press release. “We condemn terrorism in all its types and stand in solidarity with the individuals of Russia in grieving the lack of life from this horrific occasion.”
“India stands in solidarity with the federal government and the individuals of the Russian Federation on this hour of grief,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned on X.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned within the “strongest manner” the “heinous terrorist assault focusing on harmless individuals,” in a telephone name with Russian chief Vladimir Putin. He additionally mentioned Ankara is able to develop cooperation with Moscow in combating “all types” of terrorism.
”The UK condemns within the strongest phrases the lethal terrorist assault at Crocus Metropolis Corridor close to Moscow,” mentioned International Secretary David Cameron. “We provide our heartfelt condolences and specific our deepest sympathy to the households of the numerous victims. Nothing can ever justify such horrific violence,” he added in a submit on X.
Israel’s International Minister, Israel Katz, additionally turned to X to specific his nation’s sympathies over the assault. “Saddened by tonight’s tragic occasions in Moscow. Our hearts exit to the households of the victims and to all these affected. Such moments remind us of the fragility of life and the shared humanity that binds us all,” he mentioned.
”France expresses its solidarity with the victims, their family members and all of the Russian individuals,” President Emmanuel Macron mentioned, including that Paris “strongly condemns the terrorist assault claimed by Islamic State.”
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi despatched a message of sympathy to Putin on Saturday, stating that Tehran “strongly condemns” Friday night’s terrorist assault, and known as for “critical measures by the worldwide neighborhood for punishing the architects and perpetrators of this [act].”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz additionally condemned “the horrible terrorist assault in opposition to harmless spectators,” in a submit on X, and mentioned that “our ideas are with the victims’ households and all of the wounded.”
“The horror of the bloodbath of harmless civilians in Moscow is unacceptable,” mentioned Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Messages of help and condolence additionally got here from Sweden, Denmark, Spain and Japan, in addition to from Syria and the Palestinian Authority.