Shooting in Moscow: Ukrainian military intelligence accuses “Russian special services” of the attack on a concert hall. At least 40 people were killed and 100 injured.
Russia has been the target of numerous attacks in the past committed by Islamist groups but also of shootings without political motives. In 2002, Chechen fighters took 912 people hostage in the Moscow theater of Dubrovka. The hostage-taking ended with an assault by special forces, and the death of 130 people, almost all of them soldiers.