Putin called the murdered explosions in Berlin in the Moscow metro station

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who was killed in Berlin, was one of the organizers of the explosions in the Moscow metro. Putin said about this at a press conference following the results of the Summit of the leaders of the Norman Four in Paris. What kind of terrorist attacks are we talking about, he did not specify.

He called the killed "action movie, a very harsh and bloody man", who was wanted in Russia. Only in one of the actions in which he took part, he killed 98 people, Putin said.

The President of Russia rejected the accusations that Russian special services could be involved in the murder of Khangoshvili, emphasizing that "this is a gangster environment, and anything can happen there."

Putin called the expulsion of Russian diplomats "incorrect", saying that "unwritten laws" require the adoption of mirror measures.

After the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who is suspected of a Russian citizen, the German Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of two Russian diplomats.

• Khangoshvili - a native of Georgia, who during the Second Chechen War commanded one of the divisions of the separatists who fought against the Russian troops. Subsequently, he collaborated with the special services of Georgia. After the attempt on his life in Tbilisi, he asked for asylum in Germany. He was killed in Berlin on August 23, 2019.
• The suspect was detained in hot pursuit, he came to the EU on false documents in the name of Russian Vadim Sokolov. Officially, his personality has not yet been established. According to the Bellingcat , Der Spiegel and the Russian website of The Insider, the Russian, an arrested in Germany on charges of murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, previously served in the Special Forces of the FSB Vympel and participated in several contract killings. The investigators identified him as Vadim Krasikov.

• Earlier, the source of the Interfax agency called Khangoshvili the organizer of the training of suicide bombers in the North Caucasus. He did not talk about terrorist attacks in the subway.