Moscow concert attack live updates: 11 arrested, including all four gunmen who attacked

The Russian Ministry of Health has identified 29 victims of yesterday’s attack in Moscow.

The preliminary list was published by the Russian Emergency Ministry tonight. No other details about the victims, including their ages, were published.

More than 50 people who were killed in the attack have been identified so far, Moscow Oblast Gov. Andrey Vorobyov told Russian state media RIA Novosti.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to blame “someone else” for the Moscow attack.

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of preparing a “window” to help the suspects in the attack escape.

“What happened yesterday in Moscow is obviously just Putin and the other scum trying to blame it on someone else,” he said in a statement shared on Telegram. “They always have the same methods. It has happened before. There have been bombed houses, shootings, and explosions. And they always blame others.”

Zelenskyy said Putin’s methods are “absolutely predictable.”

“They come to Ukraine, burn our cities, and try to blame Ukraine. They torture and rape our people — and they blame them,” he said. “They have brought hundreds of thousands of their own terrorists here, to Ukrainian soil, to fight against us, and they don’t care what happens inside their own country.”

Zelenskyy believes Putin is trying to turn the situation “in favor of his personal power.”

The fire at the Crocus City Hall has been extinguished, according to the Russian Emergency Ministry.

The ministry shared a video on Telegram of the destruction left behind by yesterday’s attack in the area.

Over 130 people were killed in the attack and more than 100 are in Moscow hospitals with injuries, officials said.

Rescue workers will “need a few more days to fully clear up the rubble” at the Crocus concert hall, according to Moscow Oblast Gov. Andrey Vorobyov.

“Specialists from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations — 104 people and 19 pieces of equipment — continue to clear the rubble in the concert hall and put out the remaining fires,” he said in a statement shared to Telegram. “Rescuers will need a few more days to fully clear up the rubble.”

Vorobyov said there is difficulty in accessing a wall that needs to be demolished in order to continue the search for victims.

“In the near future, special small equipment will arrive to help clear access and provide rescuers with passage,” he said. “This will help continue the search operation.”

The Russian Investigative Committee will award a man who allegedly neutralized one of the suspects in yesterday’s attack on a Moscow concert hall that killed over 130 people.

“A man, trying to protect his wife from terrorists who were shooting at people, attacked one of them and neutralized him,” a statement on the committee’s website said. “Through his active and decisive actions, he saved the lives of the people around him at that moment.”

NBC News has not independently verified this information.

More than 50 people who were killed in the attack have been identified, Moscow Oblast Gov. Andrey Vorobyov told Russian state media RIA Novosti.

Russian media on Saturday broadcast videos that apparently showed the detention and interrogation of the suspects, including one who told the cameras he was approached by an unidentified assistant to an Islamic preacher via a messaging app channel and paid to take part in the raid.

Russian news reports identified the gunmen as citizens of Tajikistan, a former Soviet country in Central Asia that is predominantly Muslim and borders Afghanistan. Up to 1.5 million Tajiks have worked in Russia and many received Russian citizenship.

Putin also said that additional security measures have been imposed throughout Russia, and he declared Sunday a day of mourning.

World leaders backing Ukraine in its war with Russia weighed in Saturday with condolences and condemnations of terrorist violence in the wake of the Moscow concert hall attack.

“I strongly condemn the terrorist attack against civilians in the Crocus City Hall in Moscow claimed by the Islamic State,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen posted on X, formerly Twitter. “My thoughts are with the victims and their families during this tragic time.”

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the United Kingdom condemned “in the strongest terms the deadly terrorist attack” in Moscow.

“Nothing can ever justify such horrific violence,” Cameron posted.

French President Emmanuel Macron also went on X to express his “solidarity with the families of victims, the injured and the Russian people.”

And German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the “terrible terrorist attack on innocent concertgoers in Moscow.”

Even the leaders of countries like Poland that have for centuries viewed Russia as their enemy expressed condolences.

“Poland strongly condemns the brutal attack at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk posted. “We all grieve for the families of the victims. We hope that this terrible tragedy will not become a pretext for anyone to escalate violence and aggression.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken released a statement Saturday condemning the deadly terrorist attack in Moscow. It reads as follows:

“The United States strongly condemns yesterday’s deadly terrorist attack in Moscow. We send our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed and all affected by this heinous crime. We condemn terrorism in all its forms and stand in solidarity with the people of Russia in grieving the loss of life from this horrific event.”