they didn’t open the windows, because it’s really smoke and - the smoke in the nearby areas is very, very strong, it should also be noted that the fight against fire does not stop - open burning, from our point where we are now, is no longer observed, but i walked around the building, and of course we can state that before complete victory over the fire there is still... a lot of time left, now three helicopters are working here, including the mi-26, they take water from moscow, the river, and continue to operate , and there are also specialists working here on stairs for extinguishing fires, in order to shed the roof, i remind you that the fire spread throughout the entire building, the fire area was approaching 13.m. these are, of course, serious numbers

; truly powerful forces have been deployed to put out the fire, the operational headquarters is working here, as mentioned above , representatives of the investigative committee continue to work here, it should be noted that the cordon is still in effect over a large area, because everyone is getting through necessary investigative measures. as for medical institutions, they mobilized in moscow, in the moscow region, their employees have been mobilized, they are ready to provide all the necessary assistance, well, it should be noted about the self-organization of people, for example, there were messages, so my colleagues sent me that drivers are ready to help leave this area, and here before movement is still difficult for all those who need to leave the place. incidents, it was also reported

that taxi services were transporting people from this - from this area for free, well, gas stations also announced that fuel for - emergency and special services vehicles will also be provided free of charge, that is , now it should be noted that all necessary work to fight the fire continues, the necessary security measures also continue, i would like to remind you that at the site... transport - throughout the capital security measures have been strengthened and also here, as i mentioned above, the work of representatives of the investigative committee continues , which can now be observed on this, at the moment, structures closer to the roof, of course, they are burned out and you can to state that the building suffered enormous damage due to the fire that occurred as a result of the terrorist attack, i will remind you... before

the concert, a group of armed people with automatic weapons attacked attacked those who came to this concert, started a fire, now the fight against the fire continues, yes , we can indeed state that aviation continues to operate, the intensity of flights, of course, seems to have decreased a little, but still the helicopter flies in circles, well, as i mentioned above, it continues. evacuation of victims and ambulances, and also air ambulances. dmitry, i give you the floor. yes, evgeniy, thank you for what is happening at these moments at the site of the black sea fleet in the city hall crucus, evgeniy nipot said. well, one more piece of news, according to the governor of sevastopol mikhail razvazhaev, a spontaneous memorial has already appeared in sevastopol in memory of the fallen sevastopol residents and activists. youth

movements is right now bringing flowers to the fountain in our komsomol park in memory of those killed in the terrorist attack, mikhail razvazhaev reported on his social networks. the european union condemned the terrorist attack in crocus cityhole and wrote about it on its website. page of the representative of the foreign policy department of the european union peter stanu. he added that europe is shocked by what happened and the thoughts of europeans are with the injured russian citizens. azerbaijani president ilham aliyev expressed condolences in a letter to vladimir putin in connection with the terrorist attack in crocus. this was reported by the press service of the azerbaijani leader. he strongly condemned the terrorist attack and expressed grief on his own behalf and on behalf of all azerbaijanis people. ilham aliyev wished a speedy

recovery to all those injured. the turkish ministry of foreign affairs and the country's government and party also expressed their deepest condolences to the russian people. turkish politicians and diplomats called the incident a heinous terrorist attack on innocent civilians. the official representative of the ruling party , omer omer çelek, wrote on his networks that he shares the pain and sorrow of the russian people. president of uzbekistan shavkat mirziyoyev also expressed deep condolences to vladimir putin in connection with the tragedy in kroku sitihola and strongly condemned this terrorist act. act against the civilian population, the leader of uzbekistan also conveyed words of support to the relatives of the victims and wishes for a speedy recovery to all victims. also in neighboring belarus , alexander lukashenko expressed condolences to vladimir putin in connection with the terrorist attack in kroku

sitihol. the president of belarus expressed confidence that the attackers will be identified and, importantly, will be punished. ambassador of russia to belarus. was celebrated on march 22, about this he told reporters outside the embassy building, where in minsk people are already carrying flowers and candles as a sign of condolences in memory of those killed in the crocus. thanks to the belarusians who came at this late hour to express their condolences. to those families whose relatives died , to those victims, of whom there are a lot , unfortunately, russians and belarusians are united, here i am already speaking within the framework of such a tragedy, this is not some kind of pretentious turn of phrase,

we really are brothers, and we we support each other, events around crocus city hall began to develop around 20:00 evening, when the concert hall... before the start of the concert of the picnic group , several armed unknown persons in camouflage uniform burst into the room. they entered the building , first shooting the guards standing at the entrance, after which they blocked the doors and opened fire on unarmed people in the hall in the stalls of the auditorium. with the chronology of the terrorist attack. maria temnikova. the events in the krokusehol concert hall developed at incredible speed. the performance of the rock band picnic, judging by the poster, was supposed to start at 8:00 pm, approximately.

brown clothes, or brown vests, something like that, and well , there was something on the head, i don’t know, shooting starts, it was just very far from the balcony, we were lucky in the sense that we were on the balcony upstairs, the shootout was below, and we saw that the line of fire was going straight towards the people, the terrorists were previously armed with various modifications of hunting rifles, boar and saiga, in addition, they most likely had incendiary mixtures with them, hence the fire, trying to hide from the attack . about 100 people went down to the lower floor of the building, there was information that they were cut off by fire there, but later rescuers managed to free them. special forces units arrive at the scene. at 20:40

the roof caught fire, dozens of fire trucks and ambulances were drawn to the building. the fire was assigned the second degree of complexity. the governor of the moscow region went to the site. sergei sobyanin announced that he had ordered assistance to the victims. the investigative committee... additional fees can be returned before they reported that tickets without deduction on march 26, of course, as a result

today's events, this has made adjustments to the plans of a large number of people, and those who were not present today. according to maria lvova-belova, several children have already been taken to a moscow clinic, in particular one boy with a gunshot wound, the second was physically injured from a blow with a rifle butt, and there is already information from trea novosti that the terrorists who took part in the terrorist attack could have escaped on a white renault car there is a photo machine. is available to news agencies, but

there is no way to say that the information is true, since without reference to official sources. well, right now our correspondent anna voronina is ready to contact us directly; she is at the chazov cardiology center in moscow, where victims of the terrorist attack in kroku cityhole continue to be taken. anna, tell us about the situation, do victims continue to arrive, in what condition, perhaps, in your direction, since such a large number of victims are not taken to one clinic, maybe there were children in your direction, yes, of course, colleagues, the victims are being transported to hospitals in moscow and the moscow region, but unfortunately, in this particular case, we do not have data with whom i would talk personally. with doctors, but eyewitnesses here told us that literally a few, literally 20

minutes after the terrorist attack , taxi drivers were the first to arrive here, even before the ambulances, who brought two women, wounded, they received gunshot wounds, first one car arrived, then another, the drivers here have already handed over these victims to the doctors, it should be noted that this is not the only case, of course, when... motorists and taxis helped the wounded simply simply because it was impossible otherwise we have at our disposal communication message excuse me please we have the words of an eyewitness andrei lepko, he was at the concert together with his wife and daughter, his wife received a gunshot wound, so he just said that after he managed to pull his wife out, they just got help.

everyone who cares can donate blood, this can be done tomorrow from 8:30 am at the blood center fmba. there will also be donor centers on the running track, a donor center on shabalovskaya and tsaritsa. additional addresses can be found on the moscow government website. teams of resuscitators , surgeons, and psychologists of the fmba are working as part of the operational headquarters at... the site of the terrorist attack in crocus, and psychological assistance will also be available by calling

the hotline, and information will also be found there, information about the victims, now according to preliminary data, according to confirmed according to the data, the number of victims exceeded a hundred, at this time at the moment, data on 146 victims has not yet been confirmed, we are waiting for confirmation of this figure in the near future, the hotline of the ministry of health of the moscow region. by which you can find out information, and 498, this is code 602 03 and 01, search for victims in moscow hospitals, here you can call 495 624 31 and 56. let me remind you that - more than 70 ambulance and disaster medicine teams, they keep coming. here to the disaster medicine center, also in other hospitals in moscow, all medical institutions

, additional beds have been reserved in them, if such a need is needed, ambulance helicopters were previously involved in transporting victims, in particular, one of them delivered the victim to the sklifasovsky institute, and medical services are currently ready to provide assistance to the victims in full, colleagues. we are informed by the news that eight minors have been hospitalized after the terrorist attack in crocus city hall. well, in addition , it is also reported that helicopters ministry of emergency situations, which continues to extinguish the roof on the roof of crocus

city hall, about 160 tons of water have already been dropped to, of course, extinguish the fire and... so, what is known about the terrorist attack in crocus city hall, by this minute 40 people had died and, as we have already said, 145 were injured, this is preliminary data, among the victims there are children; in total, based on the lists

published of hospitalized citizens, there are eight of them; the wounded are being taken to a moscow clinic. moscow region, according to the governor of the moscow region andrei vorobyov, the majority is in a state of moderate severity, but there are also wounded in serious condition, but the surgeons promised today to make every effort to help cope with this difficult surrender, as deputy prime minister tatyana golikova said, medical services are ready to provide the victims with all the necessary assistance, there is all medicines, supplies of donor blood and its components are reserved beds. clinics at the fmba reported that the operational headquarters at the site of the terrorist attack included teams of resuscitators, surgeons and psychologists federal medical and biological agency. the fire continues in the crocus city hall building, the ministry of emergency situations reports that by this hour the fire has engulfed almost 13,000 m2 of the building area, and the fire

has not yet been extinguished. in addition, the roof is collapsing. in place, as we already reported. the information is still true and has not been updated, 320 fire rescuers are working, well, three helicopters have been deployed: mi-26, k-32 and mi-8, this is not counting the air ambulance. they take water from the moscow river, next to which the crocus is located, and dump it on the fires. in connection with the fire, residents of neighboring areas of the moscow region and areas in the north of moscow. rospotrebnadzor recommends not opening windows for now, if possible, not going outside. according to preliminary data , a group of five people fired machine guns at people right in the hall before the concert. in addition, two explosions are known. all necessary actions to search for arrest are now being taken by special forces

of the fsb and the russian guard. the terrorist attack was reported to vladimir putin in the very first minutes. according to the head's press secretary state of dmitry peskov, the head receives all the necessary operational information and has already given all instructions in connection with what happened. i will add that security measures have been strengthened at transport infrastructure facilities in the moscow region, as well as in crowded places, as reported by the regional ministry of transport. and after just a minute or two. shots were fired, and at first somewhere it seemed like in the hall right here, yes, and then it turns out there is a hall down there, right below us, these pops were heard and there were a few sparks, then there is this all from the shots and people first down, then up, then the crowd divided, we ran out with the girl into this non-hall, onto the floors, and here’s the fire escape, the fire

escape, damn it’s closed, we broke it down, in short, then we went down on the stairs. there was also something closed downstairs, a crowd had formed there, they went upstairs, in short, they were jumping about something, jumping up the stairs, in the end they broke down the door downstairs, met one of the guards, so people settled in, probably maybe 80 or 100, but they settled in downstairs in the basement, it turns out that smoke began to flow in parallel, by the way, when they were still on the fire escape, they also sat for something, sat, these turned on the water, they turned on the water from these from the firefighters to water the football. terrorists are inside, and the secretary general of the organization of the arab states of the persian gulf condemned the terrorist attack in crocus.

in addition, italy strongly condemned the terrorist attack in crocus cityhole. prime minister giorgia meloni called it an unacceptable massacre. and italian president sergio matarella noted the need for a joint fight against terrorism. condemned european union, head of foreign affairs. malta and the osce chairman-in-office, jan borg, condemned the terrorist attack at crocus city hall and expressed deep condolences to the families of the victims. according to borg, malta is shocked by what happened. the austrian and swiss foreign ministers expressed condolences to the russians and wished recovery to the victims. the spanish foreign ministry said it was shocked by the news from russia, expressed solidarity with the families of the victims and condemned any form of violence. the united arab emirates: saudi arabia, syria, poland and portugal. words of support were expressed by the foreign ministries

of france and armenia. venezuelan leader nicolas maduro condemned the brutal terrorist attack in kroku sitihola near moscow, offered condolences to the families of the victims and expressed confidence in the unity of the russian people at this difficult moment. this is how the european union condemned the terrorist attack in crocus city hall near moscow, an official representative of the european union's foreign policy service told peterstan. the european union - this quote is shocked and shocked by reports of a terrorist attack in kroku city hall in moscow. the eu condemns any attacks on civilians. our thoughts are with everyone. affected russian citizens, he wrote. we are in touch with the acting permanent representative of russia to the eu, kirill logvinov, kirillo mikhailovich, hello, how

expected is the reaction of the european union, how sincere do you think the condolences come from western countries. you know, yes, indeed such a statement was published at approximately 11:00 pm moscow time. bye. this is the only official reaction from the european union, and we expect that this a monstrous terrorist act, it will be condemned by the leadership of other european institutions, in particular the european council, the european commission, the european parliament and the belgian presidency of the council of the eu. the main thing , in my opinion, is that in the statement that you quoted, the phrase “terrorist attack” was used: exactly what happened today in moscow is a terrorist attack, and it should not be called anything else, and we note this in the ee

statement. well, it’s no secret, yes, that eu countries also face terrorist threats from time to time, in one of them messages called for joint action to resolve this terrorist issue, in your opinion, will there be? this situation, this is an emergency, this is a terrorist attack, this is a terrible tragedy, should be discussed on european platforms, and what is the main result, of course, of this discussion ? you know, i don’t want to guess now, but in my opinion, what happened today in moscow should really be discussed on european platforms, i’ll remind you when we had cooperation with the european one. union, from which brussels unilaterally order refused, then one of the areas of such interaction was countering terrorism, we

did a lot together, and this interaction was effective, but as for, returning to your question about sincerity, i just want to say that by coincidence we have this all happened on march 22, and for belgium this day is also special, precisely in... terms, because 8 years ago on this very day in brussels there were explosions at the airport and the city metro, which were then carried out by terrorists, suicide bombers, there about 30 people died, that is , belgium experienced all these horrors of terrorist attacks, so i think that this is really the very moment when we need to think about the fact that there are common threats. and the answers to these threats should be, yes , yes, kirillo mikhailovich, thank you, the permanent representative of russia was in contact with us

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again leaving for direct communication with our studio, jen, what is known at this moment? dim, greetings, now the sky has calmed down, firefighting aircraft have just stopped working here, i let me remind you that there were three helicopters here that spent several hours pouring water on burning structures, according to data received from the ministry of emergency situations, more than 160 tons of water were dropped on the flames, on the hot object, the evacuation of victims continues here, it is known that the moscow region ministry of health reported that the number of victims of the terrorist attack increased to 145 people. let me remind you that earlier there was information through the fsb central command line that 40 people were killed as a result of this barbaric attack, and i will repeat that the evacuation continues here, now i will ask

show the operator, here... there are also air ambulances, helicopters from the ministry of emergency situations and helicopters from other departments, you can also see how many ambulances there are, there are dozens of them, and earlier, let me remind you, it was reported that more than 70 ambulances were involved , more than 300 people were involved in fighting the fire, we are also talking about more than a hundred pieces of fire equipment, now it should be noted that... from the point where we are, you can see that the clouds of black smoke continue with the help of high-altitude stairs specialists shed an object, shed something, what remains of the premises, let me remind you that the flames - the flames engulfed the entire building, covering an area of ​​almost 13,000 m2, this is truly a very complex fire

for the rescuer and representative. scene of the incident, it was also reported that taxi services offered to take people out of the area for free, and gas stations also refuel special service vehicles and ambulances that ply here continuously for free. to

the medical institution, and back here, work continues here, now we are observing, representatives are already working here investigative committee. dmitry, i give you the floor, we continue to monitor what is happening here, but i repeat that now you can see clouds of black smoke and , as reported by the ministry of emergency situations, the fire has already been localized. yes, thank you, about what is happening at these moments at the site of the emergency in the circle. kholya was told by evgeniy nipod. so, belgium expressed its condolences to the families of the victims of the crocus city hooley attack. this was reported by the belgian ministry of foreign affairs. also, just one more second, let me read out one more breaking news.