BAIKONUR COSMODROME, March 23 The head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, announced a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in «Crocus City Hall» before addressing the combat crew at the Baikonur Cosmodrome after the successful launch of a rocket with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft and three cosmonauts, the correspondent reports.
“Dear friends, you probably already know that yesterday a tragedy occurred in Moscow. A terrorist act that took the lives of more than a hundred people… I would like to announce a minute of silence,” Borisov said.
The rocket with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft launched at 15:36 Moscow time from the 31st launch pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome.
The crew of the Soyuz MS-25 included Russian Oleg Novitsky, Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya and American Tracy Dyson. Vasilevskaya should become the first woman in the history of Belarus to go into space.
The FSB reported on Friday evening that the shooting and fire occurred before a concert at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. According to the latest data from the Russian Investigative Committee, 133 people died. The editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT television channel Margarita Simonyan reported that the number of victims of the terrorist attack in Crocus has risen to 143.
A correspondent who witnessed the incident reported that at least three men in camouflage and without masks burst into the hall through the stalls, they shot people point-blank and threw incendiary bombs.
According to the FSB central intelligence center, the weapons used by the terrorists at Crocus were prepared in advance in a cache. After the terrorist attack, the criminals tried to escape in a car, moving towards the Russian-Ukrainian border; they intended to cross the border and had relevant contacts on the Ukrainian side. According to the FSB Central Operations Center, as a result of the actions of the special services and law enforcement officers, 11 people were detained, including 4 terrorists who were directly involved in the terrorist attack. Four terrorists were detained in the Bryansk region within a few hours of each other. The detainees are currently being transferred to Moscow.
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