The Picnic group reported that it could not contact the director’s assistant, who was in Crocus at the time of the terrorist attack

After the terrorist attack at Crocus, the assistant director of the Picnic group, Ekaterina Kushner, has not been in touch.

“We still don’t have any information about Katya. But there is hope,” says a message published on the evening of March 23 on the Picnic page on VKontakte.

Kushner sold the band's merchandise at concerts. “Katya is my personal friend and a very close person to me. We have been working with her for many years, both in the “Melnitsa” group and in the “Picnic” group,” said the director of “Picnic” Yuri Chernyshevsky. “I am in touch with her family, and we are not ready to believe the worst, knowing that Katya is a very strong person and fighter.”

• According to official data, as of the evening of March 23, the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall killed 133 people and injured at least 200 people. The data on the victims is not final; the debris in the burned-out concert hall continues to be cleared, under which fragments of the bodies of the dead are found. Telegram channel “112” reported 150 dead, but this information was not officially confirmed at the time of publication of the note.
• A group of armed people on the evening of March 22 opened fire at Crocus City Hall, located on the outer side of the Moscow Ring Road, and then set fire to the concert hall. The capacity of Crocus City Hall, where the Picnic concert was to take place on the evening of March 22, is more than 6,000 people. It was reported that almost all tickets had been sold.