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Blue Arena at The Ranch Events Complex, located in Loveland, Colorado, is a 6,800 seat multi-purpose venue, which opened in September 2003, and is home to the  Colorado Eagles  of the American Hockey League. The arena, which is owned by Larimer County, is managed by Oak View Group, the fastest growing firm in the public assembly facility management field with more than 300 facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

This multipurpose facility can host hockey, basketball, football, family shows in any configuration, rodeos, diverse concert settings in various capacities, trade shows and several dozen setups to accommodate just about any event. Blue Arena, less than an hour's drive from Denver and Cheyenne, has become the focal point for sports and entertainment in Northern Colorado.

Blue Arena is part of a larger 374,000 square-foot fairground complex called The Ranch which is the official name of the Larimer County Fairgrounds and Events Complex. Phase I of the project included 6 buildings and roughly 150 acres of site work. The Ranch includes the Mac Equipment, Inc. Indoor Arena, two livestock pavilions, the First National Bank of Omaha Exhibition Building and the Thomas M. McKee Building. Blue Arena and The Ranch has become the sports, entertainment and agricultural hub for one of the fastest-growing areas in the country.

The Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies Box Office is located in Blue Arena on the southwest side of the venue, just inside the main entrance. You can buy tickets online now by clicking here .

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Located at 1625 Pelican Lakes Point in Windsor, Colorado, the Colorado Eagles are open Monday-Friday from 8:30am-5:00pm. Additionally, on Blue Arena or Colorado Eagles on Saturday on sale dates, their office is open from 10am-12pm. All hours subject to change. Please call 970-674-1743 for more information.

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Platinum-selling blues rockers Big Head Todd and the Monsters announce that tickets for their upcoming Blue Arena show in Loveland, CO and will be on sale June 7th (sales schedule below.) Supporting the band will be The Wallflowers and The Freddy Jones Band.

ON SALE SCHEDULE Artist Presale Begins: Wednesday, Feb 7th - 10AM MT Purchase at BigHeadTodd.com    Password is BHTM24

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Blue Arena at The Ranch, Larimer County's Events Complex, is located in Loveland, Colorado and is a 7,200 seat multi-purpose venue, which opened in September 2003 with the former namesake Budweiser Events Center. Blue Federal Credit Union took over naming rights to the arena officially on October 1, 2023, and is home to the Colorado Eagles of the American Hockey League.

The arena is owned by Larimer County and managed by Oak View Group. This multipurpose facility can host hockey, basketball, football, family shows in any configuration, rodeos, diverse concert settings in various capacities, trade shows, and several dozen setups to accommodate just about any event. Blue Arena, less than an hour's drive from Denver and Cheyenne, has become the focal point for sports and entertainment in Northern Colorado and an intergral part of the Hockey Highway.

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Entertainment, entertainment | adam sandler will bring his tour to blue arena in loveland on dec. 4.

Critically acclaimed comedian Adam Sandler announce​d Wednesday that his “I Missed You Tour​” will stop at Blue Arena in Loveland​ at 7 p.m. Dec. 4.

Produced by Live Nation, the tour kicked off on Oct 12 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, B​ritish C​olumbia, making stops in Portland, Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Memphis, and Toronto​,​ and follows his​ Adam Sandler LIVE ​shows that sold out earlier this year.

Tickets for ​the s​how ​are $73.50-$173.50 and will go on​ sale ​at noon Friday, ​a​nd can be purchased at ​​​ treventscomplex.com/blue-arena ​ or at the ​box ​office at Blue Arena​.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Amerks will begin their playoff journey at home on Friday night when the take on the Syracuse Crunch in the first game of a best-of-five series.

The puck will drop at 7:05 p.m. at the Blue Cross Arena. Before the game, the community will celebrate the post-season with the ROC the Block Party. The party on Board Street starts at 4 p.m. with food, live music, and fun activities.

You can get tickets to the game here , by calling 585-454-5335, or by visiting the Blue Cross Arena Box Office. Tickets are also on sale for the second game of the series on Sunday, also at the Blue Cross Arena. Then, the Amerks go on the road.

Here’s the complete schedule for the North Division Semifinals:

• Game 1: Friday, April 26 – 7:05 p.m. at Blue Cross Arena
• Game 2: Sunday, April 28 – 3:05 p.m. at Blue Cross Arena
• Game 3: Thursday, May 2 – 7 p.m. at Upstate Medical University Arena
• Game 4 (if needed): Saturday, May 4 – 7 p.m. at Upstate Medical University Arena
• Game 5 (in needed): Friday, May 10 – 7:05 p.m. at Blue Cross Arena

The Amerks are entering the playoffs as the second seed in the AHL North Division, while the Crunch are the third seed. The Amerks will start the AHL playoffs in the second round because they had a first round bye. You can learn more about the American Hockey League playoff picture here .

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10 Thoughts After Seeing Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band On What Could Be Their Final Tour

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1. People pay to sit behind him. Sunday night, hundreds, maybe thousands of seats behind the stage at Nationwide Arena were filled by concert-goers who mostly could only see the backs of the performers, save for a few fleeting moments where the band turned around to acknowledge their presence. I go to a fair amount of concerts at arenas, and I rarely see a setup like that one. Normally there’s all kinds of stagecraft going on back there that would not be visible from the rear, video screens and what have you — and even if not, there aren’t many performers who could inspire a throng of onlookers to watch from behind. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band are a rare exception — both because their stage show does not rely on special effects and because the Boss is one of a handful of living legends who could fill up that part of the bowl.

2. I get why those people felt like they had to be there, even in less-than-ideal seats. Springsteen will turn 75 this year, and even if he maintains McCartney-esque stamina into his eighties, there can’t be many more of these epic E Street Band tours left. This show, in fact, was twice postponed due to Springsteen’s health concerns, as his doctors and wife/bandmate Patti Scialfa urged him to rest up after peptic ulcers rather than risk the situation escalating due to the stress of the road. I’d never seen him in concert, and even though I’m more of a greatest-hits guy where the Boss is concerned, I wasn’t about to let this chance slip past me. I had to see him live before one of us dies.

3. Not that you could tell Springsteen has ever been sick a day in his life. On the last night of this leg of the tour, as he had at every prior show, the Boss performed for more than three hours straight without ever showing signs of fatigue, usually counting off the next song while the last one was still ringing out. There are no opening acts when the E Street Band rolls through town. They have way too many songs to perform, and it seems like they love playing together so much that they could keep going for another three hours if venue curfews or audience attention spans allowed. His energy level was unbelievable. I had to sit down multiple times to rest my legs; meanwhile this dude my dad’s age was racing across the stage, shaking his world-famous ass on a catwalk, and singing anthems at full volume. After watching him do his thing Sunday night, the idea that he could outlive 40-year-old me feels increasingly feasible.

4. Even at three hours and 30 songs, Springsteen can’t come close to playing everything people want to hear. This show featured three tour debuts: Opener “Youngstown,” appearing for the first time since 2017, was a nice touch for an Ohio crowd, even if it’s not necessarily a tune casual Boss fans like me are clamoring for. The middle of the set saw “Streets Of Fire” performed for the first time since 2016 and “I’m Goin’ Down” for the first time since 2017 — songs you’d expect to make the cut for any Springsteen setlist, until now squeezed out by the abundance of available material. The later parts of the show became a hit parade, and even then there were no “Glory Days” or “Born In The U.S.A.”” or “Cover Me,” no “Brilliant Disguise” or “Tunnel Of Love” or “Streets Of Philadelphia.” The man left so many top-10 hits on the table, and we couldn’t even be mad because of all the classics that did make the cut.

5. I am not a real head where Springsteen is concerned. To me, a lot of these rugged heartland rock songs are interchangeable, which is what people always say when they haven’t put in the time to understand the intricacies of a genre. This is another way of saying I didn’t care which songs he performed as long as “Born To Run” was in there, as it inevitably was. (That song kicked off the encore portion of the show, without the band even leaving the stage.) But part of the magic of an E Street Band show is that even though the tracks start to blur together, they never get boring. The songs are outfitted with such big melodies — from the horn section, from the keyboards, from the background singers — and the band is so adept at making this music come alive that you always feel like you’re witnessing a legendary performance even when it’s from one of his not-quite-essential late-career dispatches.

6. On that note, E Street is such an unstoppable force that they create a forcefield of sorts, a temporary suspension of cynicism that allows them to get away with moves I would reject as corny from most other acts — sometimes acts that have expressly taken their influence from Springsteen, like the leathery old punk guys who shift over to folk-rock careers in a bid to sign to Anti-. It’s not only the solemn, salt-of-the-earth singer-songwriter fare that often rubs me the wrong way when anybody but Springsteen tries it. Springsteen likes to lock into silly little dances with his bandmates and break out covers of old-time rock ‘n’ roll hits like “Twist And Shout” at a moment in the show when playing one of his own timeless tracks would really be advisable. He’s been doing the “Detroit Medley” — featuring “Devil With The Blue Dress On,” “Good Golly Miss Molly,” “C.C. Rider,” and “Jenny Take A Ride” — since the ‘70s, so those songs have long been part of Springsteen lore. But a spin through his childhood jukebox can’t help but feel like falling action after so many burly anthems that each could have been the grand finale at a lesser band’s concert. The only thing stopping me from rolling my eyes was the sheer jubilance of the performance. His stage presence is such that not only does all that hokey stuff not come off as hokey, but you feel like you’re watching the coolest man in the world.

7. It needs to be pointed out more often that the E Street Band features both Conan O’Brien’s bandleader and a Sopranos cast member. And now a minor character on Curb ! On a stage with four guitarists, rhythm player Little Steven Van Zandt seems like one of the least essential members of the group, a guy who’s mainly there to look cool and pick up Springsteen’s slack when the Boss is out carousing with the audience. But with his severe tough-guy features and wardrobe choices like the bandanna wrapped around his head, he definitely contributes to the feeling that you’re watching the the kind of old-school rock ‘n’ roll gang that’s on the verge of going extinct.

8. Jake Clemons, nephew of the late, great Clarence Clemons, took over his uncle’s old gig as saxophonist for E Street in 2012. He’s just as much of a powerhouse as Clarence used to be — a mountain of a man, with abundant swagger and a tangible chemistry with Springsteen. Every time he left the brass section to venture to the front of the stage was delightful. It helps that his uncle and Springsteen left him so many iconic saxophone parts to blare at these shows. I haven’t been able to get the graceful, grandiose climax of “Thunder Road” out of my head for days.

9. Nils Lofgren… the man can shred. I’d like to invoke the Shaq “I wasn’t really familiar with your game” meme in his honor.

10. In the middle of the show, while everyone else was taking a break, Springsteen did a solo acoustic version of “Last Man Standing” from 2020’s Letter To You , on which he grapples with the deaths of his teenage bandmates. His anecdote before the song was moving, as was the performance itself, and it implicitly raised the question of how much longer the Boss can keep this going. It’s hard to believe his body will be able to handle this kind of grueling regimen for many more years, and his cast of E Street bandmates has already begun to pass away — not just Clemons but also Danny Federici. Scialfa has already stepped out of the E Street lineup for this tour. With any luck, a decade from now Springsteen will still be out there like Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan, and this time-tested unit will still be barreling through these three-hour rituals. But there’s no promise the E Street Band will ever ride again beyond this tour, so get to a show if you can swing it — even if you have to sit behind the stage.

SETLIST: “Youngstown” “Lonesome Day” “Prove It All Night” “No Surrender” “Ghosts” “Letter To You” “The Promised Land” “Spirit In The Night” “Hungry Heart” “Trapped” “Streets Of Fire” “I’m Goin’ Down” “Nightshift” “Racing In The Street” “Last Man Standing” “Backstreets” “Because The Night” “She’s The One” “Wrecking Ball” “The Rising” “Badlands” “Thunder Road”

ENCORE: “Born To Run” “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)” “Bobby Jean” “Dancing In The Dark” “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” “Detroit Medley” “Twist And Shout”

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Ohio-born The Black Keys to perform in October at Nationwide Arena

The Black Keys , the Grammy-winning blues-rock duo hailing from Akron, will return to their home state during their 2024 North American tour, which will stop at Nationwide Arena on Oct. 24.

American Express Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public starting at 10 p.m. Tuesday through 10 p.m. Thursday. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general sale beginning at 10 a.m. Friday. Visit livenation.com and theblackkeys.com for all details.

The Black Keys played the Schottenstein Center in 2012 and their upcoming “International Players Tour” comes on the heels of two successful performances at SXSW earlier this month. The tour is in support of their new album, “Ohio Players,” due out on Friday. They will be joined on the road with indie folk band The Head and the Heart.

The pair — Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — started as an indie act, recording in basements and producing their own records. After self-producing and recording their first four albums in makeshift studios, the duo recorded their fifth album, "Attack & Release" in 2008 in a professional studio, hiring producer Danger Mouse, who has worked with artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gorillaz, Norah Jones, Adele, A$AP Rocky and many others.

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The Black Keys' commercial breakthrough came with the 2010 album, "Brothers," which along with its chart-topping single "Tighten Up," earned them two Grammy Awards. Their follow-up album and its hit single , "Lonely Boy," won three Grammys. Other hits include "Gold on the Ceiling" and "Little Black Submarines."

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At least 40 killed and dozens injured in Moscow concert hall shooting; ISIS claims responsibility

Updated on: March 22, 2024 / 8:30 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Several gunmen burst into a large concert hall on the edge of Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with automatic gunfire, killing at least 40 people, injuring more than 100 others and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin  cemented his grip on power in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin described the attack as a "huge tragedy" and which state authorities are investigating as terrorism. The attack, which left the concert hall in flames with a collapsed roof, was the deadliest attack in Russia in years and came as the country's  war in Ukraine dragged into a third year.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on affiliated channels on social media. In a statement posted by its Aamaq news agency, the group said it attacked a large gathering of Christians in the city of Krasnogorsk on the outskirts of the Russian capital of Moscow, killing and wounding hundreds. It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the claim.

A U.S. official tells CBS News the U.S. has intelligence confirming the Islamic State's claims of responsibility, and that they have no reason to doubt those claims. The U.S. official also confirmed that the U.S. provided intelligence to Russia about a potential attack under the intelligence community's Duty to Warn requirement.

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson confirmed that in a statement provided to CBS News Friday evening.

"Earlier this month, the U.S. government had information about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow —potentially targeting large gatherings, to include concerts— which prompted the State Department to issue a public advisory to Americans in Russia," Watson said. "The U.S. government also shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its longstanding 'duty to warn' policy."

A U.S. law enforcement official tells CBS News that there is no known threat to the U.S. emanating from the Moscow attack.

Russia's Federal Security Service, the main domestic security and counter-terrorism agency, said 40 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the attack at Crocus City Hall, a large music hall on Moscow's western edge.

The assailants threw explosives, triggering the massive blaze at the hall, which can accommodate 6,000, according to Russian news outlets. Video from outside showed the building on fire, with a huge cloud of smoke rising through the night sky. The street was lit up by the blinking blue lights of dozens of firetrucks, ambulances and other emergency vehicles.

The attack took place as crowds gathered for a performance by the famous Russian rock band Picnic. Russian news reports said concertgoers were being evacuated, but that an unknown number could have been trapped by the blaze.

The prosecutor's office said several men in combat fatigues entered the concert hall and fired on concertgoers.

Repeated volleys of gunfire could be heard in videos posted by Russian media and on Telegram channels. One showed two men with rifles moving through the venue. Another showed a man inside the auditorium and saying the assailants had set it on fire, as gunshots rang out incessantly in the background.

Other videos showed up to four attackers, armed with assault rifles and wearing caps, who were shooting at screaming people at point-blank range.

Guards at the concert hall didn't have guns, and some could have been killed at the start of the attack, Russian media reported. It wasn't immediately clear what happened to the assailants, but some Russian news outlets suggested that they fled before special forces and riot police arrived.

Russian authorities said security has been tightened at Moscow's airports, railway stations and the capital's sprawling subway system. Moscow's mayor canceled all mass gatherings, and theaters and museums shut for the weekend. Other Russian regions also tightened security.

The Kremlin hasn't blamed anyone for the attack, but some Russian lawmakers were quick to accuse Ukraine of being behind it. Hours before the attack, the Russian military launched a sweeping barrage on Ukraine's power system, crippling the country's biggest hydroelectric plant and other energy facilities and leaving more than a million people without electricity.

John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said Friday that he couldn't yet speak about all the details but that "the images are just horrible. And just hard to watch."

"Our thoughts are going to be with the victims of this terrible, terrible shooting attack," Kirby said. "There are some moms and dads and brothers and sisters and sons and daughters who haven't gotten the news yet. This is going to be a tough day."

The attack followed a statement issued earlier this month by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow that urged Americans to avoid crowded places in the Russian capital in view of "imminent" plans by extremists to target large gatherings in Moscow, a warning that was repeated by several other Western embassies.

Asked about the embassy's notice issued on March 7, Kirby referred the question to the State Department, adding: "I don't think that was related to this specific attack."

Responding to a question about whether Washington had any prior information about the assault, Kirby responded: "I'm not aware of any advance knowledge that we had of this terrible attack."

Russia was shaken by a series of deadly terror attacks in the early 2000s during the fighting with separatists in the Russian province of Chechnya.

In October 2002, Chechen militants took about 800 people hostage at a Moscow theater. Two days later, Russian special forces stormed the building, and 129 hostages and 41 Chechen fighters died, most of them from the effects of narcotic gas Russian forces used to subdue the attackers.

And in September 2004, about 30 Chechen militants seized a school in Beslan in southern Russia, taking hundreds of hostages. The siege ended in a bloodbath two days later and more than 330 people, about half of them children, were killed.

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• 23 Mar 2024 Summary
• 23 Mar 2024 Islamic State solely responsible for Moscow attack, no Ukraine involvement - White House
• 23 Mar 2024 Zelenskiy speaks out
• 23 Mar 2024 Russian TV airs footage of terrorist attack suspects
• 23 Mar 2024 Interim summary
• 23 Mar 2024 Security experts see credibility in Islamic State claims of responsibility for attack
• 23 Mar 2024 US told Russia Islamic State was planning to attack Moscow - report
• 23 Mar 2024 Summary of the day …
• 23 Mar 2024 Death toll in Crocus City Hall terror attack rises to 133
• 23 Mar 2024 Three children still in hospital – one in critical condition
• 23 Mar 2024 Putin praises work of emergency services and bravery of people at Crocus City Hall
• 23 Mar 2024 Putin: all four attackers were detained while heading to Ukraine after attack
• 23 Mar 2024 Putin declares Sunday a national day of mourning
• 23 Mar 2024 Putin: Russian Federation will 'identify and punish everyone who prepared the terrorist attack'
• 23 Mar 2024 Podolyak: 'any attempts to connect Ukraine to the terrorist attack are absolutely untenable'
• 23 Mar 2024 Erdoğan condemns attack and says terror is 'the common enemy of humanity'
• 23 Mar 2024 Ukrainian military intelligence official: claim Ukraine linked to attack 'another lie' from Russia
• 23 Mar 2024 Russia’s FSB tries to link Ukraine to Moscow attack despite IS claiming responsibility
• 23 Mar 2024 Cameron: UK condemns Moscow attack 'in the strongest terms'
• 23 Mar 2024 Death toll in Crocus City Hall attack rises to 115
• 23 Mar 2024 Russia's FSB confirms it has arrested 11 suspects
• 23 Mar 2024 Crocus City Hall attack – what we know so far …
• 23 Mar 2024 Putin told some suspects detained as Crocus City Hall attack death toll rises to 93
• 23 Mar 2024 Kremlin: Putin has been told that 11 suspects have been detained
• 23 Mar 2024 107 people in hospital after Crocus City Hall attack – Russian state media
• 23 Mar 2024 Opening summary …

Death toll in Crocus City Hall terror attack rises to 133

Tass reports the Russian Investigative Committee has announced that the death toll from Friday’s shooting and arson terror attack at the Crocus City Hall has risen to 133.

41 people have been identified and named as killed by the ministry of health. 107 people are in hospital.

The Islamic State on Saturday released on its Telegram channels what it said is footage of the attack on a concert hall near Moscow, Reuters reports.

The 1.31-minute video shows a close-up view of one of the gunmen opening fire on several people as he enters what appears to be the concert hall.

Hello to our liveblog readers coming to us for news on the massacre at a pop concert on the outskirts of Moscow late on Friday.

It’s just after 1am in Moscow and the official death toll remains at 133. Some of the wounded and injured have been described as being in critical condition, and many people still do not have confirmation of the whereabouts of their loved ones. Victims were taken to several hospitals for treatment.

The burnt-out shell of the Crocus City Hall building, where four gunmen are reported to have shot people and then set off fire bombs, is still smouldering and firefighters and investigators remain on the scene. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, but while Russia says it has the attackers in custody, it has made no mention of the Islamic State and has only claimed, without evidence, that Ukraine was involved, which Ukraine denies.

Here’s where things stand:

US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson issued a statement on Saturday saying that the Islamic State bears sole responsibility for the deadly attack near Moscow on Friday and there was no Ukrainian involvement “whatsoever”. The US government a few weeks ago shared information with Russia about a planned attack in Moscow and issued a public advisory to Americans in Russia on March 7, Watson added.

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy , used his nightly public address to condemn Russia for claiming that Ukraine had been involved in the attack and was seeking to help the attackers escape. Calling Russian president Vladimir Putin a “low-life”, Zelenskiy added: “What happened yesterday in Moscow is obvious: Putin and the other scum are just trying to blame it on someone else … They always have the same methods.”

Russian television has aired footage of the detention and questioning of four men the authorities say are suspected of carrying out the deadly attack on a Moscow-area concert hall. Russia’s Channel One television showed footage of four suspects and their damaged white Renault car. It said they had been captured by special forces in the village of Khatsun in the western Bryansk region, which is close to borders with Ukraine and Belarus.

Neither Vladimir Putin , nor any of his government representatives, have responded to claims by the Islamic State religious terrorist group that they were responsible for the attack on a pop concert in the Moscow suburbs on Friday night.

Several security analysts have said that the claim of responsibility by the Islamic State for the massacre of Russian concertgoers appears to be plausible and fits with a pattern of previous marauding attacks by Islamist militants.

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken , currently in the Middle East, issued a statement on Saturday afternoon that the US condemns “terrorism in all its forms and stand[s] in solidarity with the people of Russia in grieving the loss of life from this horrific event”. He called the attack “a heinous crime”.

The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group said on Saturday that four of its militants carried out an attack on a concert hall in a Moscow suburb that Russian authorities said had killed at least 133 people, and that they used firebombs among its weapons

The four suspected gunmen detained after the deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow are all foreign citizens, Russia’s interior ministry said.

US intelligence gathered information just this month that ISPK, a branch of the Islamic State group based in Afghanistan, was eyeing Russia for a terrorist attack, the New York Times reported .

Putin told the Russian people that Ukraine is linked to the Crocus City Hall terror attack. In a video address lasting five-and-a-half minutes on Saturday, the newly re-elected Russian president said Russian security forces believed they had apprehended all four direct participants in the attack, who they said were caught heading for Ukraine, which they said was preparing to receive them over the border. Kyiv has rubbished the claims.

Putin described the attack as a “bloody, barbaric terrorist act”, and said the victims were “dozens of peaceful, innocent people – our compatriots, including children, teenagers and women”. He said the Russian Federation would “identify and punish everyone who prepared the terrorist attack”.

Ukraine has denied any link to the attack. Presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said attempts to connect the two were “absolutely untenable”. He said: “Ukraine has not the slightest connection to this incident. Ukraine has a full-scale war with Russia and will solve the problem of Russia’s aggression on the battlefield.” Neither Putin nor the FSB publicly presented any proof of a link with Ukraine.

On Saturday morning, 107 people remained in hospital after the attack, including three children, one of whom is described as being in critical condition. After a drive to receive blood donations in Moscow, deputy prime minister Tatyana Golikova said “there is enough medicine, blood and dressing materials”.

Putin has declared Sunday 24 March a day of national mourning. People have been laying flowers and toys as a tribute to the victims at the site of the attack, as well as outside Russian embassies all around the world.

Images from inside the venue show that the auditorium has been completely gutted by fire and the roof has collapsed. Russian authorities say people died both from gunshot wounds and the effects of the fire.

The terrorist attack has been widely condemned around the world. Notwithstanding tensions caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Britain’s foreign secretary David Cameron , European commission president Ursula von der Leyen and French president Emmanuel Macron have been among those condemning the attack and offering condolences. Putin spoke to the leaders of Belarus and Uzbekistan by phone. Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also offered his support, saying terrorism is “the common enemy of humanity”.

Islamic State solely responsible for Moscow attack, no Ukraine involvement - White House

The Islamic State bears sole responsibility for the deadly attack near Moscow on Friday and there was no Ukrainian involvement, the US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said on Saturday, Reuters reports.

The US government early this month shared information with Russia about a planned attack in Moscow and issued a public advisory to Americans in Russia on 7 March, Watson said in a statement:

ISIS bears sole responsibility for this attack. There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever.

Very late on Friday, Watson posted on X/Twitter about US warnings relayed to Russia.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Government had information about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow – potentially targeting large gatherings, to include concerts – which prompted the State Department to issue a public advisory to Americans in Russia. — Adrienne Watson (@NSC_Spox) March 23, 2024

The U.S. Government also shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its longstanding ‘duty to warn’ policy. — Adrienne Watson (@NSC_Spox) March 23, 2024

Here’s more on the relationship between the Islamic State and Russia and between Tajikistan and the branch of the religious terrorism group based chiefly but not wholly in the Tajik neighbour of Afghanistan.

We should not forget that in the last several months #Tajiks affiliated with #ISIS #Khorasan tried to do several attacks in #Germany (but failed- everyone arrested), did a small in #Turkey before doing a major one in #Moscow … — Vera Mironova (@vera_mironov) March 23, 2024

More, including from Paweł Wójcik, an independent analyst who’s quoted in a Guardian piece written by Russian affairs reporter Pjotr Sauer .

Pawel has been tracking the battle between ISIS and Russia in Africa for years, well worth a follow for more insight right now https://t.co/Gy4DTj39xr — Danny Gold (@DGisSERIOUS) March 23, 2024

Wójcik, a specialist in Islamic State messaging and propaganda, said IS messaging after the Moscow attack was similar to that of previous attacks that the group claimed in Tehran and Kabul.

“The messaging we saw from IS following the attack was standard,” Wójcik told the Guardian. Read Sauer’s full piece here .

“Deadly Moscow Attack Shatters Putin’s Security Promise to Russians” is the headline of a New York Times analysis piece , with the line below saying: “The tragedy outside Moscow is a blow to a leader riding an aura of confidence only days after a stage-managed election victory.”

The report says, in extract: “Less than a week ago, President Vladimir V Putin of Russia claimed a fifth term with his highest-ever share of the vote, using a stage-managed election to show the nation and the world that he was firmly in control.

“Just days later came a searing counterpoint: His vaunted security apparatus failed to prevent Russia’s deadliest terrorist attack in 20 years.

“The assault on Friday, which killed at least 133 people at a concert hall in suburban Moscow, was a blow to Mr Putin’s aura as a leader for whom national security is paramount. That is especially true after two years of a war in Ukraine that he describes as key to Russia’s survival – and which he cast as his top priority after the election last Sunday.

The election demonstrated a seemingly confident victory. And suddenly, against the backdrop of a confident victory, there’s this demonstrative humiliation,” Aleksandr Kynev , a Russian political scientist, told the New York Times in a phone interview from Moscow.

Mr Putin seemed blindsided by the assault. It took him more than 19 hours to address the nation about the attack, the deadliest in Russia since the 2004 school siege in Beslan, in the country’s south, which claimed 334 lives. When he did, the Russian leader said nothing about the mounting evidence that a branch of the Islamic State committed the attack.

“Instead, Mr Putin hinted that Ukraine was behind the tragedy.”

You can read the whole report here .

Russian lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein said the attackers suspected of shooting up and burning the concert hall near Moscow had fled in a Renault vehicle that was spotted by police in Bryansk region, about 340 km (210 miles) southwest of Moscow on Friday night. He said a car chase ensued after they disobeyed orders to stop, Reuters reports.

Khinshtein said a pistol, a magazine for an assault rifle, and passports from Tajikistan were found in the car. Tajikistan is a mainly Muslim Central Asian state that used to be part of the Soviet Union.

Here is some interesting extrapolation.

Worth reading https://t.co/WeHl6qy6c0 — Pjotr Sauer (@PjotrSauer) March 23, 2024

Hundreds of Russian firefighters are still dealing with the burnt-out shell of the concert hall in Krasnogorsk on the outskirts of Moscow, while security forces across the country remain on high alert.

It’s coming up to midnight in Moscow on Saturday and many people are still reported missing from the assumed terrorist attack that took place on Friday night when thousands were packed into the Crocus City Hall for a pop concert.

Relatives of people who had been attending the concert are still waiting desperately for news, following the Russian authorities reporting that 133 people had been killed and at least 145 wounded or injured and rushed to numerous hospitals.

Russian president Vladimir Putin said 11 suspects had been apprehended and of those four were the chief perpetrators who breached the concert hall and shot people, then lit the building on fire. Interrogations are continuing, the authorities say.

Just a few more details from Kyiv now.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Saturday that Russian president Vladimir Putin was seeking ways to divert blame for a massacre at a concert hall near Moscow on Friday, Reuters reports.

He said it was “absolutely predictable” that Putin had remained silent for 24 hours before tying the shooting rampage to Ukraine.

He added that the hundreds of thousands of what he called “terrorists” that Putin had sent to fight and be killed in the war in Ukraine would “definitely be enough” to have stopped terrorist attacks at home.

There’s a bit more from AFP. Zelensky announced, after Putin said the suspects had been fleeing towards Ukraine:

What happened yesterday in Moscow is obvious: Putin and the other scum are just trying to blame it on someone else … They always have the same methods.

He continued:

That low-life Putin, instead of dealing with his Russian citizens, addressing them, was silent for a day, thinking about how to bring it to Ukraine. Everything is absolutely predictable.

Russian TV airs footage of terrorist attack suspects

Russian television on Saturday aired footage of the detention and questioning of four men suspected of carrying out the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.

Russia’s Channel One television showed footage of four suspects and their damaged white Renault car.

It said they had been captured by special forces in the village of Khatsun in the western Bryansk region, which is close to borders with Ukraine and Belarus.

In footage shot at night and in daylight, the detained men speak Russian with an accent.

The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for Friday night’s attack, when a group of gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow and set it ablaze.

They killed at least 133 people.

The decimated remains of the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, on the outskirts of Moscow, are still smouldering.

It’s just gone 10pm in the Russian capital and crews are still working at the fire-gutted remains of the concert hall.

Russian authorities say they have 11 people in custody, including the four main gunmen who shot people in the hall.

The Islamic State, the religious terrorist group that claims responsibility for the attack, claimed the gunmen got away, however.

The exact details of what happened have yet to be independently verified or officially established.

None of the claims by ISKP , an offshoot of the Islamic State in central Asia, based mainly in Afghanistan, have been publicly acknowledged by Russian authorities. ISKP stands for Islamic State Khorasan Province.

Interim summary

Hello, again, global blog readers. It’s just gone 9pm in Moscow. We’ll continue to bring you all the developments in news from the apparent terrorist attack that occurred on the outskirts of the Russian capital on Friday night.

Neither the Russian president, Vladimir Putin , nor any of his government representatives have responded to claims by the Islamic State religious terrorist group that they were responsible for the attack on a pop concert in the Moscow suburbs on Friday night.

The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group said on Saturday that four of its militants carried out an attack on a concert hall in a Moscow suburb that Russian authorities said has killed at least 133 people, and that they used firebombs among its weapons

The four suspected gunmen detained after a deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow are all foreign citizens, Russia’s interior ministry said.

US intelligence gathered information just this month that ISPK, a branch of the Islamic State group based in Afghanistan, was eyeing Russia for a terrorist attack, the New York Times has reported .

Police and Russian special forces still surround the concert hall on Saturday. Here are some views from passers-by, blood donors and emergency workers, in reporting via the AFP agency. Most only wanted to give the wire service their first name. Maxim, a 37-year-old who works for the ruling United Russia political party, said:

Yesterday was a great tragedy for all of us. We cannot remain indifferent.

Maxim said that he knew people who had been inside the hall and “went through hell”, but that all were still alive.

On advertising hoardings and at bus stops across Moscow, posters were put up showing a candle and the slogan: “22/03/24 - We mourn.”

With steady rain falling, about 150 people waited outside one blood donor centre in north-west Moscow earlier on Saturday following an appeal by authorities. Alexandra, a 35-year-old air logistics specialist, said:

I came to help. When you can see what happened from your balcony, you understand what the reality is.

Alexandra added that all citizens had a “duty” to give aid, and that she lived near the Crocus City Hall, which had been almost completely burned down in the attack.

Vladislav, an 18-year-old student also in the blood donation queue, said:

When you see the situation you don’t want to remain isolated, you want to help.

Russians in shock and mourning.

It’s almost 9pm in Moscow now and night has fallen.

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