“Contacts with Ukraine” –

The provisional death toll from the attack which occurred in a concert hall in Moscow and claimed by ISIS has risen to 115 deaths and might worsen even further in the next few hours. According to the governor of the Moscow region Andrej Vorobyev, there might be more victims at the Crocus City Hall on the outskirts of the Russian capital, and a search is still being made in the halls and basements of the structure.

Meanwhile, 11 people have been stopped by the Russian authorities, four of whom were stopped in Russia in the Bryansk region, near the border with Ukraine. They are suspected of last night’s attack in the concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow, and they had contacts in Ukraine and following the attack they tried to escape by car and cross the border, the Russian FSB services report, according to reports Russian news agency Ria Novosti. “After committing the terrorist attack, the criminals intended to cross the Russian-Ukrainian border and had important contacts on the Ukrainian side,” the intelligence service said.

Previously the Kremlin had announced that the director of the Russian FSB services, Alexander Bortnikov, reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin of the arrest of 11 people in connection with the attack, including “four terrorists who were directly involved in the terrorist attack”. . The Russian Investigative Committee then reported that 4 suspects were detained in the Russian region of Bryansk, near the border with Ukraine.

One of the arrested suspects in the Crocus terrorist attack admitted to having arrived from Turkey on March 4. A video of the interrogation was published, Ria Novosti writes, the interrogated also said that he had been offered half a million rubles to kill people. Meanwhile, the United States reiterates that it has shared information on the risk of attacks since November. Russian special services had received information from the US regarding a plan for a terrorist attack, but without “specific details”.