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Crocus City Hall attack
Part of terrorism in Russia and Islamic terrorism in Europe
Exterior of Crocus City Hall after the attack
Map
Location	Crocus City Hall, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Coordinates	55°49′33″N 37°23′25″E / 55.82583°N 37.39028°E / 55.82583; 37.39028
Date	22 March 2024; 9 months ago (2024-03-22) 20:00 MSK (UTC+3)
Attack type	Mass shooting massacre bombing arson mass murder
Deaths	143+
Injured	145+
Perpetrators	Islamic State – Khorasan Province(claimed responsiblity)
No. of participants	4
Motive	Unknown

On 22 March 2024, at around 20:00 MSK (UTC+3), a coordinated attack occurred at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, a Russian city on the western edge of Moscow. Four gunmen carried out a mass shooting on the people gathered at the venue and used incendiary devices to set the venue ablaze. The attack killed at least 143 people, with over 145 injured, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Russia since the Beslan school siege in 2004 and the deadliest terrorist attack in Moscow's history.

Russia's Foreign Ministry called the incident a terrorist attack. The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (IS-KP or ISIS-K), a South-Central Asia-based regional affiliate of the Islamic State, claimed responsibility in a statement released through the Telegram channel of Amaq News Agency shortly after the attack.

On 23 March, IS-KP released a photo of the attackers. Russian state media and officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have alleged Ukrainian involvement in the attack but have not provided any evidence, and Ukraine has denied any involvement. Putin also called the attack a "barbaric terrorist act" and said that all four gunmen had been arrested. He also declared 24 March a national day of mourning.

Background

Russia was subject to deadly terror attacks in the early 2000s, including the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002 and the Beslan school siege in 2004. In 2015, Islamic State militants downed Russian passenger jet Metrojet Flight 9268, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State has carried out coordinated, large-scale attacks on music venues throughout Europe since the 2010s, including a similar attack during a rock concert at the Bataclan theater in France in November 2015, as well as a bombing at the end of a pop music performance at the Manchester Arena in the England in May 2017.

On 7 March 2024, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) announced that it had neutralized a terrorist cell linked to IS in Moscow, which had intended to attack a synagogue in the city. Hours later, the United States embassy in Moscow warned "that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts." That day, the U.S. also privately warned Russian officials of the danger of an impending attack from IS–KP from intelligence gathered earlier in March, under the U.S. intelligence community's "duty to warn" requirement.

On 19 March, Russian president Vladimir Putin said the U.S. embassy's warning "resembles outright blackmail and an intention to intimidate and destabilize our society." Putin had previously thanked the U.S. and CIA for giving warnings that prevented terror attacks in Russia in 2017 and 2019. U.S. officials confirmed to The New York Times that the attack was related to the prior U.S. warning. U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said it was too early for the White House to comment on the attack.

Crocus City Hall was built in 2009 as a concert venue with a capacity of 6,200 people, it is one of the largest in the area. It is part of a larger block of shopping centers, restaurants, and other attractions called Crocus City.

Attack

On 22 March 2024, the Russian band Picnic was scheduled to play a sold-out show at Crocus City Hall. At around 20:00 MSK (UTC+3), before the band began their performance, masked gunmen in combat fatigues opened fire on the crowd using assault rifles. Because the show was about to begin, some believed the initial sound of gunshots was part of the act. At the time of the attack, children and teenagers were also in the building for a ballroom dancing competition. The venue's security guards were unarmed, and it is believed that some of them were among those killed in the attack.

One witness described the attackers as bearded men. Amateur video footage verified by BBC Verify showed masked gunmen shooting indiscriminately in the entrance hall and auditorium. Other footage posted to Telegram showed men in military fatigues and baseball caps firing into crowds of screaming people. The assailants were also reported to have used incendiary devices, with an eyewitness claiming the assailants used petrol bombs to start a fire in the auditorium. Amateur video footage posted to social media sites showed huge fires and plumes of smoke coming from the building from the fires set by the assailants.

At 21:32, an explosion was reported, and a partial roof collapse followed at around 22:00. Moscow governor Andrey Vorobyov said the roof over the hall had collapsed. Some early reports indicated that the gunmen barricaded themselves within the building.

Specialized police units from the Special Rapid Response Unit (SOBR) and Special Purposes Mobile Unit (OMON) were sent to the scene, arriving over one hour after the shootings started, according to Nexta. Vorobyov went to the scene to set up a task force to handle the situation. The National Guard of Russia was also dispatched to search for the assailants, with a picture posted of the suspected assailants fleeing in a white Renault car.

Survivors were evacuated via medical helicopters, with 70 ambulance crews reportedly being dispatched. An unknown number of people fled to the parking area from the stage, while others fled to the roof. Authorities evacuated approximately 100 people hiding in the basement. Firefighters prevented the fire from spreading. Three helicopters were deployed to dump water on the burning rooftop.

By 07:00 on 23 March, Vorobyov reported the fire had been contained and mostly extinguished. He released video showing extensive damage to the building with the roof and upper rows of the concert hall completely collapsed.

The U.K.-based Sky News erroneously reported that a second shooting occurred at the Sklifosovsky Medical Center in Moscow, resulting in 28 people being injured, which was a mistranslation of Russian news sources reporting that 28 victims from Crocus City Hall had been transported to the facility for treatment.

Casualties

At least 143 people were killed, and over 145 injured, with 107 people hospitalized and at least 60 people in critical condition. Aside from gunshot wounds, some of the deaths were caused by smoke inhalation. According to the Russian Minister of Health, Mikhail Murashko, five children were injured in the attack. At least three children were killed.

The members of Picnic later posted on Instagram that they and their management were "alive and safe", with TASS later reporting that they had been evacuated.

Investigation

As of 23 March, 11 people have been detained, and the four suspected assailants in the white car were captured close to the Ukrainian border in Bryansk Oblast. However, they have yet to be identified. The Investigative Committee of Russia launched a criminal terrorist probe into the attack.

Allegedly, Tajikistan passports were discovered in the vehicle of the individuals in custody, and the Russian Telegram channel Baza identified the four attackers as citizens of Tajikistan. Officials later said that none of the attackers were Russian citizens. A short video on Telegram shows one of the suspects being tortured by FSB agents.

The Federal Security Service stated that the terrorists were intended to cross the Russia–Ukraine border. Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Dzmitry Kruty later announced that the Belarusian security services helped its Russian counterparts to prevent the the terrorists from crossing the Belarus–Russia border. The Ukrainian authorities described the FSB's claims as a "very doubtful and primitive" disinformation, recalling that the Russia–Ukraine border is heavily guarded by soldiers and drones, mined in many areas, and constantly shelled from both sides.

Responsibility for the attack

IS-KP claimed responsibility for the attack shortly after in a statement released by Amaq News Agency via Telegram, stating that the attackers "retreated to their bases safely." The group is a regional branch of the Islamic State, an international terrorist group active in South-Central Asia, primarily Afghanistan. U.S. officials stated they had intelligence indicating that IS-KP had been planning an attack on the city. Colin Clarke from the independent Soufan Center think tank explained that Russia has been a focus of the group for some time, saying "ISIS-K has been fixated on Russia for the past two years, frequently criticizing Putin in its propaganda." On 23 March, IS-KP released a photo of the attackers.

Riga-based Russian news outlet Meduza has reported that pro-government and state-funded media in Russia have been instructed by the Russian government to highlight possible "traces" of Ukrainian involvement. On the evening of the attack, Russian television channel NTV broadcast a deepfake video purporting to show Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, confirming Ukrainian involvement in the attack, supposedly saying, "It's fun in Moscow today, I think it's very fun. I would like to believe that we will arrange such fun for them more often." Meduza debunked the video, showing that it was patched together from previous news streams of the Ukrainian 1+1 channel.

The Russian newspaper Kommersant received information from government sources alleging that the Ukraine-based Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) is suspected, and Russian police officers started receiving search bulletins stating that the terrorists are "young men, Slavs, above average height, and possibly used fake beards and mustaches." Both the RVC and another anti-Kremlin militant group, the Freedom of Russia Legion, denied involvement in the attack. Dmitry Medvedev, Putin's deputy on the Security Council of Russia, wrote on the Telegram app that if those responsible for the attack turn out to be linked to Ukraine, "all of them must be found and ruthlessly destroyed as terrorists". He further stated that "official representatives of the state that committed such a crime" would also be punished.

Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote that Ukraine, which is at war with Russia, was not involved in the attack. The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence accused Russian special forces of organizing the attack on Putin's orders. The White House called the situation "terrible" and said there was no indication of Ukrainian involvement in the attack. Despite this, the FSB claimed that the perpetrators of the attack had "contacts" in Ukraine and were trying to flee there in the aftermath of the attack.

Aftermath

In an address to the nation on 23 March, President Putin announced that 24 March would be a day of national mourning for the victims of the attack and vowed to punish those responsible. Putin also stated that all the attackers had been apprehended, and alleged that the attackers were trying to enter the Ukrainian border, where he said a "window" was prepared on the Ukrainian side.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin cancelled all weekend events in the city, and security was tightened across airports and train and subway stations serving the city. The Russian Ministry of Culture later cancelled events nationwide. In Saint Petersburg, shopping centers were closed, and Leningrad Oblast was put on high alert. Hundreds gathered in Moscow on 23 March to donate blood for the victims. Sberbank, Sovcombank, and Home Bank pledged to settle loans and relieve the debts of the families of clients who were killed or injured in the attack.

Responses

Russian president Vladimir Putin wished those injured in the attack a speedy recovery and praised the doctors involved in treating the victims. A spokesperson for Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church said that he was "praying for peace for the souls of the dead". The U.S. Embassy in Moscow expressed "sincere condolences to the Russian people", while advising its citizens to avoid the area as they were "severely limited" in their ability to assist U.S. citizens due to the limits placed on U.S. personnel's ability to travel within Russia. The British embassy in Moscow condemned the attack and expressed its "sincere condolences to the relatives and loved ones of those hurt and killed in today's events".

Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova called for the international community to condemn the attack, which she called "a monstrous crime". The Taliban-led Afghanistan, where IS-KP bases its operations out of and who have been at war with the Taliban since 2015, called the attack "a blatant violation of all human standards" and called for cooperation between themselves and neighboring states. Numerous countries' governments condemned the attack and expressed their condolences to the Russian people and families of the victims, including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Cuba, Denmark, Algeria, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mexico, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, the United States, the United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the European Union, and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission also condemned the attack and expressed condolences.

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry rejected assumptions by some Russian officials that Ukraine may have been involved in the attack, stating that it regarded such accusations as a "planned provocation by the Kremlin to further fuel anti-Ukrainian hysteria in Russian society, create conditions for increased mobilisation of Russian citizens to participate in the criminal aggression against our country and discredit Ukraine in the eyes of the international community."

See also

• List of terrorist incidents linked to the Islamic State
• List of terrorist incidents in 2024

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