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Hungarian victim in Moscow terror attack?
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has expressed his condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin and all of Russia’s citizens “over the brutal terrorist attack at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall”, his press chief told MTI on Saturday.
“We have all been shocked by the images of the dead, the wounded, and the destruction,” Orbán said in a letter to Putin. The Hungarian government is committed to supporting the fight against terrorism, Orbán said, and pledged Hungary’s continued support to stepping up international counter-terrorism operations.
Possible Hungarian victim?
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó phoned Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, on Saturday to express his “deepest condolences” over the terrorist attack on a concert hall that killed at least a hundred people on the outskirts of Moscow during the previous night.
He told Lavrov that Hungary resolutely condemns the attack in which innocent people had been killed, according to a foreign ministry statement.
Hungary stands with those mourning their loss, Szijjártó told Lavrov. “Those are in our prayers and we wish a swift and full recovery to those who were injured in the terrorist attack,” he said.
Lavrov told Szijjártó that Russian authorities would do everything they can to round up those responsible for the terrorist attack. He said that in a new development the Islamic State terrorist organisation had claimed responsibility for the attack and 11 of the suspected perpetrators had been detained.
US intelligence warned their Russian counterparts that a terrorist attack was imminent and the US embassy advised Americans in Russia to avoid large gatherings. Three days before the terrorist attack Putin said through TASS said of the US warning: “All this resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society,” Putin could not accept that US would actually try to help Russia to avoid an attack and shamelessly used the warning to make a putrid Kremlin style propaganda statement against the US. Putin did nothing to secure Russians and let the terrorists kill more than 130 people. This is the regime Orban disgustingly ally’s himself with.