Moscow concert hall attack: death toll raised to 137 as White House says Ukraine had ‘no involvement whatsoever’– as it happened

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Pope Francis has condemned the shooting attack at the concert hall near Moscow as a vile" act that offends God.

I assure my prayers for the victims of the vile terrorist attack carried out in Moscow, may the Lord receive them in his peace, comfort their families and convert the hearts of those who ... carry out these inhuman actions that offend God," the pope said in St. Peter's Square after the Palm Sunday mass.

I think we have very little confidence in anything the Russian government says.

We know that they are creating a smokescreen of propaganda to defend an utterly evil invasion of Ukraine.