Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and current number two in the Security Council of the Russian Federation, threatened on Friday after the attack at a concert hall in Moscow that “Russia will kill Ukrainian leaders if they have anything to do with the attack in Moscow.”

Dmytro Medvedev, who gained a reputation as a radical voice of the Kremlin since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, wrote in a Telegram message that “no court and no investigation will help if force is not opposed by force, and total executions of terrorists and repression against their families are not opposed to death “, News.ro quotes.

“If it is established that they are terrorists of the Kyiv regime, we cannot do anything else with them and their ideological inspirers,” Medvedev adds. “All of them must be found and mercilessly destroyed as terrorists, including the state officials who committed such an atrocity,” Medvedev said.

“Death for death,” he concludes his message.

Earlier in a Telegram message, Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, stated that Ukraine had nothing to do with the terrorist attack in Moscow.

For its part, the Russian Legion of Freedom, an anti-Kremlin Russian militant group based in Ukraine, denies any involvement. “We emphasize that the Legion is not fighting against Russian civilians,” said the group, which blames “Putin’s terrorist regime.”

At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured after five gunmen in camouflage opened fire with automatic weapons on Friday at a concert at Crocus City Hall outside Moscow, in one of the worst attacks of its kind in Russia in years . .