Worse "Nord-Ost"

The powerlessness of the security forces, more than a hundred dead and the "Ukrainian trace." Complete chronology of the terrorist attack in Crocus

The number of those who died as a result of the terrorist attack in Crocus City already amounted to 143 people-this is more than during the Dubrovka terrorist attack during the capture of the Nord-Ost musical hostages in 2002. What then, that now the powerlessness of the security forces is there - the first outfits of special forces came to Crocus only an hour after the first reports of shooting. By this time, terrorists could already leave the complex and leave outside the Moscow region. The suspects were detained in a terrorist attack only after 15 hours about 550 kilometers from Crocus City - near the border with Belarus and Ukraine. "Cold" restored the entire chronology of the events of one of the terrible terrorist attacks of modern history of Russia.

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From morning to evening, the Crocus Expo, with which Crocus City Hall has a common entrance, is held in dance sports competitions. Among the participants are children from 7 to 18 years old and adults.

Day -VChK-OGPU channel posts a video that states the special forces delaying a large group of men at Crocus Expo. Later, information appeared in the channel that the detention could be related to the conflict in the boxing club.

19:00 - the new owner of the white Renault, on which the terrorists probably arrived at Crocus City Hall, calls the previous owner and asks to remove the car from the register.

19:38 - The DVR of the passing machine records the moment when the terrorists left the white Renault and headed for Crocus City Hall. According to the guard, the terrorists opened shooting from the street, "the glass immediately sprinkled." This is confirmed by the video that was shot outside.

19:45 - the first shots in the building - according to an eyewitness. Other witnesses say that they heard the first shots between the second and third call to the concert of the Picnic group. Presumably, it was then that the first sacrifices appeared - on the frames , where the entrance to Crocus City Hall and the terrorist buildings are visible, you can notice people who lie motionless at the door.

“The shooting began somewhere at 19:55. The second call just rang and people began to climb the concert hall. Loud sounds were heard, but it was difficult to understand what was happening. What is this: Chlopushki, firecrackers, a concert begins in this way? ”, One of the survivors tells the cold.

19:58 - Shots are heard in the concert hall. An eyewitness notices an armed person in the stalls.

20:00 - the beginning of the concert of the rock band "Picnic" is planned. The artists are in the dressing room.

20:15 -The first reports of shooting at Crocus City Hall appear in the telegram channels “Caution, News” and Baza .

20:17 - “Caution, News” publishes the first certificate of eyewitnesses of shooting, which already refers to the murdered person.

20:23 -Baza telegram channel publishes the first video on which the sounds of shots at Crocus City Hall are heard. The channel also reports at least 35 victims. At the same time, the first video with black puffs of smoke over Crocus City Hall appears . The fire begins.

“I have not yet come down to the end [stairs], when suddenly I abruptly realized: there was almost no air, I stumble, and consciousness leaves. ... I will die now, in this smoke, ” says one of the survivors.

20:25 -The telegram channel “Caution, News” from the words of eyewitnesses reports that shooting is from the machine gun. The report also says about the use of firecrackers. According to the Baza telegram channel, by this moment it is known at least 12 dead as a result of shooting.

20:26 - The first reports of shooting from the state Russian news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti .

20:31 - TASS State Information writes about “smoke” in the Crocus City Hall building. “Firefighters left for the place,” the agency reports.

20:33 - TASS writes about the explosion. The first message about the reaction of law enforcement agencies to the attack - employees of the Moscow Sobr and OMONs were raised by alarm.

20:35 -The telegram channel “Caution, News” reports the ten dead.

20:35 - TASS agency: "According to preliminary data, the shooting could be carried out from the machine gun." Information about the victims or dead is specified, the agency writes.

20:41 - “Caution, News”: The roof “Crocus City Hall” collapses .

20:45 -A operational headquarters is created in Krasnogroska due to shooting at Crocus City Hall.

20:49 -Baza telegram channel writes that more than 100 people can be in the burning building. The Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov leaves for the terrorist attack.

21:00 - The first channel in the release of the main news of the day is reported about the terrorist attack in Crocus.

21:03 - “More than 30 regional and 20 Moscow ambulance brigades were sent to Krasnogorosk to Crocus City Hall,” TASS writes .

21:05 - fighters of special forces of the Russian Guard arrived at Crocus City Hall.

21:08 - According to BAZA, people in the building were blocked by fire. "Among them are five children."

21:14 - TASS reports that the firefighters managed to evacuate “about 100 people”, as well as that people are saved from the roof of the building.

21:17 -According to the Baza telegram channel, the firefighters still did not begin to allow extinguishing "due to the fact that there may be criminals."

21:27 - All traffic police officers were ordered to organize fire support when inspection of cars.

21:36 - The road near Crocus City Hall was blocked - Baza.

21:40 - The release of news on Channel One replaces the show "Voice".

21:55 - The first mention of Vladimir Putin in state news agencies after reports of shooting at Crocus City Hall: “Lukashenko expressed condolences to Putin in connection with the emergency in Crocus City Hall,” RIA Novosti said.

21:56 - BAZA reports that at least 18 dead and 43 wounded are known by this moment: “The“ Dawn ”plan was introduced in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow and the Moscow Region. The entire male composition should arrive at work within an hour. ”

21:58 - A criminal case of a terrorist attack was instituted .

22:13 - The first message with reference to the FSB: 40 killed, more than 100 victims.

22:19 - Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Zelensky, Mikhail Podolyak, states that Ukraine is not involved in the terrorist attack. A similar statement is made by the representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andrei Chernyak. Later, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine will issue an official statement about this.

22:42 -the State Agency of RIA Novosti, citing a press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov, writes that “what happened in Crocus Vladimir Putin was reported in the first minutes”.

22:45 - Channel One interrupts the show “Voice” for the sake of emergency turning on the correspondent from Crocus City.

23:04 - The first messages appear that the police are looking for a white Renault.

23:12 - Emergency release on Channel One stops. The show "Voice" returns to the air.

00:16 - Aaron Zelin, a researcher at the Washington Institute of Middle Eastern Policy, writes that ISIS took responsibility for what happened, and attaches a screenshot from Amath News Agency - an information agency related to ISIS. In Russian pro-government telegram channels, information is subject to information that the screenshot is fake.

00:37 -State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein writes in his telegram channel that the employees of the Rosguard special forces left Crocus City Hall due

00:50 - Baza publishes a photo of people in a car that can be involved in the terrorist attack.

01:40 - The New York Times, citing American officials, writes that ISIS is responsible for the terrorist attack.

01:45 - BAZA: The number of dead increased to 62.

02:00 - more than ten bodies of the dead were found in the Crocus City Hall in the toilet. People were hiding there from terrorists, but were blocked after the start of the fire - BAZA .

02:01 - The Russian media announces Putin's performance. But the newly elected president does not air. RIA Novosti calls the link to his appeal “technical error”.

02:45 - “Some sources” of the Kommersant newspaper connect the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall with the Russian Volunteer Corps.

03:19 - In the IC of the Russian Federation , at least 60 died as a result of the attack.

04:10 - The Ministry of Emergencies publishes a list of 99 victims in a terrorist attack.

05:12 - The security forces cordon off Red Square.

08:56 - Baza claims that the car with the suspects was stopped in the area of ​​the village of Teply in the Bryansk region - just 16 km from the border with Belarus.

09:54 - The Ministry of Emergencies publishes a list of 107 hospitalized after the attack.

10:25 - Deputy Khinshtein writes that the alleged participants in the attack were allegedly stopped near the village of Khatsun Karachevsky district of the Bryansk region - 150 kilometers from Ukrainian and 190 kilometers from the Belarusian border ..

11:02 - The head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, reports to Putin about the detention of 11 people, including four, direct performers of the attack, RIA and TASS .

11:10 - A source from the special services told RIA Novosti that information about the preparation of the attack in Moscow really came from the US Embassy, ​​but had a general character.

11:20 - the number of dead grew to 93 people. It is expected that the amount will increase, reports SK. According to preliminary data, the cause of death was gunshot wounds and poisoning of combustion products

11:35 - Details of the detention in the Bryansk region of four suspects in the terrorist attack appeared. They are detained near the border with Belarus.

11:45 - The FSB said that all suspects were detained in the Bryansk region with a difference of several hours. The special service also stated that the attack was carefully planned : the weapons that they used were hidden in the cache. After the attack, the suspects planned to contact their “contacts from Ukraine” and cross the Russian border to Ukraine. The suspects are transferred to Moscow.

12:02 - propagandist Margarita Simonyan said that terrorists did not reach 100 kilometers to the border with Ukraine. “Fighters who did not allow to leave, is a bow. <...> And the state should give an order, of course, ”the propagandist added.

12:15 - The Ministry of Emergency Situations publishes the frames of analysis of the blockage in Crocus. The auditorium is destroyed and completely burned out.

12:37 - Moscow Depatrans reports that increased security measures have been introduced in the subway. Inspectors can check people in the inspection zones.

12:53 - SK reports that the number of dead grew to 115 people.

12:56 - Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov, who was in Crocus along with rescuers, said that the ceiling of the center was under threat of collapse. Rescuers continue to rake blockages and look for people.

13:11 - Margarita Simonyan and Maria Zakharova publicly accuse Western countries of ties with terrorists who attacked Crocus City. Messages that terrorists are connected with ISIS, they consider fiction. As an argument in favor of his position, Zakharov uses information about the desire of terrorists to hide in Ukraine.

13:18 - Margarita Simonyan publishes a video of interrogation of allegedly one of the attackers. “I publish the full version of the interrogation of the ghoul. Half a lame, "so that Stralat Ludai Luby." The person in the video is supposedly called Faridun Shamsutdinov (in the video inaudible), on September 17, 1998. He claims that he was listening to a preaching in Telegram - an assistant preacher allegedly contacted him and “asked to organize an attack”.

13:51 - The second video interrogation in the telegram channel of the propagandist. This time supposedly with the leader of the attackers.

13:52 - Mikhail Podolyak denies Ukraine's involvement in the terrorist attack.

13:56 -The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in his telegram channel claims that the fighters from the Akhmat regiment helped the FSB during the detention of four suspects in the Bryansk region.

14:05 - the number of victims exceeded 143 people. This is more than according to official figures died in Nord-Ost-130 people.

15:30 - almost 20 hours after the attack, Vladimir Putin turned to citizens. He expressed condolences to the relatives of the dead and the victims and announced possible involvement in the Ukrainian terrorist attack. According to him, the “window” was prepared for terrorists. He compared the performers with the Nazis and promised retribution to all involved in the terrorist attack.