“It is an act of deception: to come in cold blood to shoot at the guards and then open fire on civilians who came to relax and listen to the concert of this group,” said the president of the regional council of veterans, Alexander Strukov. about the attack on Crocus Town Hall. “I’m sure this was being prepared.” Our fierce enemies. We see that they are ready for meanness. But we will respond not with the same, but with our cohesion, the consolidation of society. “.
In the Volgograd region, cultural, sporting and public events were canceled over the weekend. Educational institutions switched to distance learning format until Monday. Security measures have been reinforced for critical, industrial, industrial infrastructure, social facilities and transportation.
“The crime committed yesterday against our State is meanness and cowardice on the part of all those forces that know that Russia will win. They secretly want to intimidate us. But I believe that with this terrorist attack they united our people even more,” says President of the Volgograd regional branch of the Russian Union of Veterans and Special Military Operations of Afghanistan, Viktor Zenin.
As the press service of the administration of the Volgograd region informed RG, residents of the region come to specialized medical centers in the morning to donate blood for the victims at the Crocus City Hall. The Volgograd Blood Center, as well as its branches in municipalities, work in a special way: from eight in the morning until the last donor. In the first three hours, more than 200 people were admitted and more than 90 liters of blood and its components were collected.
