Russian President Vladimir Putin heads a meeting on Russian plane crash in Egypt in Moscow’s Kremlin, Russia, early Tuesday, November 17, 2015.
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Russia’s security chief Alexander Bortnikov told Putin that the passenger jet was brought down over the Sinai peninsula by a bomb with a force equivalent to one kilo of TNT. “We will find them in any part of the world and punish them”, he said, calling the attack “one of the bloodiest crimes”.
The Russian national flag flies at half-mast on the roof of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg after an Airbus 321 plane crashed in Egypt, killing all 224 on board.
Russia’s security chief has confirmed that a holiday flight that crashed in Egypt was brought down by a bomb.
Speculating on the causes of the crash started soon after the catastrophe with global media, politicians and law enforcement agency representatives declaring the plane crash a terrorist act.
A $50 million reward has been offered for information leading to the capture and prosecution of those responsible for the crash largest civil aviation disaster in Russian history.
An Islamic State affiliate had claimed responsibility for the act of terror.
“We have to do it without any period of limitation; we need to know all their names”, Putin said.
“We will search for them anywhere they might hide”.
Also on Tuesday, a USA defense official said Russian Federation had conducted a “significant number of strikes” in Raqqa in northern Syria in the past several hours.
He added that the airstrikes in Syria “must not only continue”.
He instructed the Defense Ministry and General Staff to present their suggestions on how Russia’s operation in Syria could be modified.
Renzi told Putin that “we should have unity, first and foremost, in the fight against terrorism”.
Putin was unusually somber.
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IS has also claimed responsibility for Friday attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and wounded 350 others.
