Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin of searching for to “shift the blame” onto Kyiv for the Moscow concert hall attack that killed 133 people.

“What happened yesterday in Moscow is obvious: Putin and the other scum are just trying to blame it on someone else,” Zelensky introduced, after Putin stated the suspects had been fleeing in the direction of Ukraine.

“They always have the same methods,” Zelensky added.

worl the place, in response to preliminary information, a window was ready for them on the Ukrainian facet to cross the state border”.

Kyiv has angrily dismissed the claims by the Russian chief, which come greater than two years after Moscow invaded Ukraine.

“That low-life Putin, as a substitute of coping with his Russian residents, addressing them, was silent for a day, eager about find out how to deliver it to Ukraine,” Zelensky said.

“Everything is completely predictable.”

The Moscow attack has been claimed by the Islamic State group (IS).

It was the deadliest assault in Russia for nearly 20 years and the deadliest in Europe to have been claimed by IS.

Putin made no reference to the group’s claims of accountability in his tackle.