Moscow attack: Russia “hopes that the French secret services are not behind” the attack. Sergei Shoigu persisted in accusing Ukraine of being behind the attack which targeted a concert hall in the Moscow suburbs on March 22.

At least 144 people died and 360 were injured in this attack claimed by IS. The Kremlin admitted that “radical Islamists” had beenbehind the attack, while denouncing Ukrainian involvement coordinated by the West. The Russian ministry also once again returned to the recent controversial remarks of Emmanuel Macron, who estimated that sending troops to Ukraine could not “be excluded”