The UN Security Council issued a statement calling the murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov a terrorist act, Interfax reports. Members of the Security Council announced the need to bring to justice "the perpetrators, organizers, financial sponsors of the terrorist attack," the agency reports.

Photo: Michael Sohn / AP / Scanpix / Leta On the evening of December 19, the truck drove into a crowd of people at the Christmas Fair in the center of Berlin. At least 12 people died, according to the police, rescuers report dozens of victims. The police suggests that there was a terrorist attack in the city, but does not yet call the final version. "Medusa" tells what is known and what is not known about what happened at 0:00 Moscow time.

The terrorist organization "Islamic State" claimed responsibility for attacks on policemen in Grozny on December 17-18. According to the organization SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the activities of terrorists, representatives of the Caucasian "province" ("wilayat") of the IS declared responsibility for the incident. In early December, the FSB announced the murder of the leader of this group during a special operation in Dagestan.

Police have detained a truck driver who crashed into a crowd of passers-by at a Christmas market in Berlin. Immediately after the accident, he jumped out of the cab and tried to escape. The second man who was in the cab of the truck, according to preliminary data, died from injuries. The authorities appealed to the residents of Berlin with a request not to leave their homes and spread rumors about the incident.

Russia and Turkey will create a joint investigation team into the murder of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrey Karlov. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated this in a televised address. An agreement on a joint investigation into the murder of Karlov, according to Erdogan, was reached during telephone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Pictures from the scene of the murder of Russian diplomat Andrei Karlov The Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was killed in Ankara on the evening of December 19. The 62-year-old diplomat made a speech at the opening of a photo exhibition. The killer-22-year-old Mevlut Altyntash-hit the event under the guise of a security officer and stood behind the ambassador. While Karlov said, Altyntash took out a gun and shot him nine times in his back.

Photo: Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta on the evening of December 19, the truck drove into the crowd at the Christmas Fair in Brightshadpes in Berlin. According to the latest data , at least nine people died.

Berlin police have reported the death of at least nine people in Berlin, where a truck crashed into a crowd at a Christmas market. The department also reported many casualties. Earlier, the rescue services said that about 50 people were injured in the incident. The police consider the attack as the main version of what happened. The condition and identity of the truck driver is not yet known.

Monologue of Masha Kachalova, witnesses of events in the center of Berlin Photo: Masha Kachalova Late in the evening of December 19, in the center of Berlin, a truck drove into a crowd of people at the Christmas Fair. According to police, at least nine people were killed, rescuers report dozens of victims. Medusa was recorded by the monologue of the architect Masha Kachalova, who was a witness to what happened.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov a provocation aimed at "failing the normalization of Russian-Turkish relations and disrupting the peace process in Syria." It is reported by Interfax. “We need to know who directed the killer's hand,” said the president also .

Rescuers have found several dead and about 50 injured after a truck crashed into a Christmas market in central Berlin. This was told by the representative of the Berlin firefighters at the scene. A police spokesman told the Berliner Zeitung that the driver's actions looked like a deliberate assault. Authorities are officially treating the incident as a terrorist attack. The identity of the driver is still unknown, according to ZDF , it was a Pole.

In Zurich, a shooting occurred in the building of a Muslim prayer house, as a result of which three people were injured. The incident occurred around 17:30 local time (19:30 Moscow time). The attacker managed to escape. There is no information about the circumstances of the incident. The police also said they received information about the discovery of a body nearby. Whether this is related to the shooting is unknown.

The mother and sister of Mevlut Altintash, who shot the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov, have been detained by the police. Hurriyet Daily News Altintash's family members were, according to CNN Turk , detained in his hometown of Aydin in the country's west. 22-year-old Mevlut Altintash, who served in the Ankara police, shot dead Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov on December 19 in an art gallery in the Turkish capital, where he attended the opening of an exhibition.

At a Christmas market in Berlin, a truck crashed into a crowd. According to preliminary data, one person died and 10 others were injured. It is not known whether this is a terrorist attack or a road accident. 🇫🇷Salat Bernard ⚖️ On the night of July 15, 2016, a truck crashed into a crowd on the embankment in Nice, where Bastille Day celebrations were taking place. Then 86 people died. The car was driven by a Tunisian citizen, he was shot dead by the police.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the United States is ready to help investigate the murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov, who was shot dead on December 19 in Ankara. “We are ready to offer assistance to Russia and Turkey in investigating this dastardly attack, which is also an attack on the right of all diplomats to safely and reliably defend and represent their states around the world,” Interfax quoted Kerry in a statement .