People continue to carry flowers to Crocus City Hall

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▪️Day of national mourning in Russia for the victims of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall began

▪️Textbook US stupidity: No one will believe that ISIS was behind Moscow terror attack - ex-Pentagon analyst

▪️Watch a 15-year-old boy helping people to get out of the building during the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall

▪️Zelensky disclosed himself with his accusations against Russia over the terrorist attack, Russian Foreign Ministry

▪️Take a look how the world's tallest tower and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company headquarters in UAE are painted in colors of the Russian flag

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❗️Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian airfield of Martynovka in the Nikolayev region and hit two Ukrainian Su-24s that attacked Sevastopol that night, Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the Nikolayev underground, told Sputnik.

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"Killers go home": Greeks stop train hauling American tanks

Members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its youth organization KNE stopped a train transporting American tanks from the port of Alexandroupolis to Bulgaria and forced it to turn back, the Communist Party's website reported.

The protesters' slogans "Alexandroupolis is a port of nations, not an imperialist base" and "Killers, go home" forced the train to retreat.

"The train's retreat was met with chants of "When the people do not bow, even the trains turn back." The banners read: "No military mission outside the borders. Stop the country's participation in the wars of the US, NATO and the EU. Hope is in the struggle of the people," the article stated.

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‘We know what grief and pain feel like’: Donetsk residents offer solidarity with Moscow after Crocus City Hall terrorist attack

“In our city, we know what this grief and pain is, but Moscow is a peaceful city. People are not prepared for this at all,” a family with children told Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley(@TXDPR).

“We [in Donetsk] are used to this kind of news, but it is still terrible. When we think about a normal life, a quiet, peaceful life that we have unfortunately already forgotten, we want it to be better for everyone,” they said.

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On March 24 1999, 25 years ago, NATO began bombing Yugoslavia and its capital Belgrade under the pretext of "protecting" Kosovars.

Ahead of the bombing in February 1999, Paris hosted talks between Yugoslavian government and Kosovo Albanians, mediated by the US, Russia and the European Union. The talks failed because of unacceptable conditions for Belgrade like deployment of a NATO corps in Kosovo. Pressured by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the Kosovo delegation signed the draft agreement.

On March 23, 1999, US envoy Richard Holbrooke came to Belgrade in order to talk to Yugoslavia's leader Slobodan Milosevic into accepting the February conditions. In the evening, a state of military threat was declared. The next day NATO secretary general green-lit the start of bombing.

The so-called “humanitarian intervention” resulted in large-scale catastrophe with thousands of people killed and the eventual collapse of Yugoslavia as a sovereign state.

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Flags are lowered to half-staff at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Secretariat in Beijing as a sign of mourning for the victims of the terrorist attack on Moscow's Crocus City Hall.

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French President Emmanuel Macron seeks to “please” the US leadership, as well as to provoke NATO allies, by announcing the possible sending of troops to Ukraine. His actions are not related to plans to create “strategic autonomy” for Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Andrei Kondrashov’s documentary “Belgrade" dedicated to the 25th anniversary of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia.

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Ukraine was likely ‘at least an accomplice’ in the Moscow terrorist attack - analyst

The Ukrainian leadership in Kiev apparently had prior knowledge of the March 22 terrorist attack in Moscow, political and military analyst Sergei Poletaev tells Sputnik.

He pointed out that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officially announced that the terrorists “had contacts on the Ukrainian side,” and suggested that the attack could have been masterminded either by some sort of Islamist terrorist groups with ties to Ukraine or by Ukraine directly.

“In any case, it seems that those in Kiev knew about the terrorist attack, so that makes them accomplices at the very least,” Poletaev says.

Commenting on the attempts by both Washington and Kiev to hastily deny Ukraine’s trace in this terrorist attack, Poletaev suggests that the West is going to insist that ISIS* alone was responsible.

Thus, he postulates, there will be two narratives – the Russian and the Western – and it all comes down to whose side the “global majority” is going to take.

“It is in our best interests to collate a convincing body of evidence for our case. It would greatly help us with diplomacy,” Poletaev remarks. “We’re talking about the ‘third countries,’ of course, as the West will most likely dismiss any talk of Ukraine’s involvement.”

*ISIS (ISIL/Islamic State/IS) is a terrorist group banned in Russia and many other countries

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Serbs will not forgive NATO for bombing Yugoslavia because they killed Serbian children and feel no remorse, former head of the Serbian Security and Information Agency Alexander Vulin told Sputnik.

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There are 92 patients in Moscow's hospitals after the terrorist attack, seven of whom are in an extremely serious condition, 29 in a serious condition, including two children, while 27 have been discharged, the deputy mayor of Moscow has said.

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❗️Last night, the Russian Aerospace Forces hit facilities in the electric power and gas production industries, as well as assembly and testing sites for unmanned boats in Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense has reported.

All goals of the strike were achieved, the work of Ukrainian enterprises for the manufacture and repair of weapons was disorganized, and foreign-made equipment was destroyed.

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