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Attack on Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk

Krasnogorsk, Moscow region · 22 Mar 2024 · Terrorist attack

On 22 March 2024 armed men opened fire in the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk and set it on fire. According to the Prosecutor General's Office on the day of the verdict, 147 people died, three are missing and 336 suffered bodily injuries; the Investigative Committee gave 149 dead.

Official figures

Dead
147
as of 12 Mar 2026 · archive copy
Injured
336
as of 12 Mar 2026 · archive copy
Missing
3
as of 12 Mar 2026 · archive copy

First version and outcome

What officials and state media named as the cause, those responsible and the toll in the first three days, and what investigators and courts later established. Side by side, with no assessment of ours.

First three days: 22 Mar 2024 to 25 Mar 2024

  1. 22 Mar 2024, 20:58 Moscow time · CauseEmergency services (as reported by Interfax): The attackers at the entrance to the building, during the concert, apparently opened fire with automatic weapons; then a fire broke out in the building
  2. 22 Mar 2024, 21:25 Moscow time · CauseFSB public relations centre: According to preliminary information, shooting began in the Crocus City Hall complex before a concert by a Russian band. A fire broke out
  3. 22 Mar 2024, 21:42 Moscow time · CauseProsecutor General's Office of Russia: unknown men in camouflage clothing burst into the building and opened fire
  4. 22 Mar 2024, 22:06 Moscow time · CauseInvestigative Committee, Main Investigations Directorate: Over the incident at the Crocus City Hall concert hall, the Main Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case under article 205 of the Criminal Code (terrorist act).
  5. 22 Mar 2024, 22:14 Moscow time · TollFederal Security Service (FSB): According to preliminary information, 40 people died in the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall entertainment complex, the FSB said.
  6. 23 Mar 2024, 01:35 Moscow time · TollMikhail Murashko, Minister of Health: As of today, in the terrorist attack, we have hospitalised 115 people, five of them children. One child is in a serious condition
  7. 23 Mar 2024, 01:42 Moscow time · ResponsibilityDmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council: According to Medvedev, if it is established that these are terrorists of the Kyiv regime, there is no other way to deal with them and those who inspired them. "They must all be found and destroyed without mercy as terrorists. Including officials of the state that committed such an atrocity"
  8. 23 Mar 2024, 03:25 Moscow time · TollInvestigative Committee of Russia: It has been preliminarily established that more than 60 people died in the terrorist attack. Unfortunately, the number of victims may rise.
  9. 23 Mar 2024, 11:28 Moscow time · TollInvestigative Committee of Russia: It has now been established that the number of dead is 93. The number of dead will rise further
  10. 23 Mar 2024, 12:07 Moscow time · ResponsibilityFSB public relations centre: After committing the terrorist attack, the criminals intended to cross the Russian-Ukrainian border and had the relevant contact on the Ukrainian side
  11. 23 Mar 2024, 12:55 Moscow time · CauseInvestigative Committee of Russia: It has also been established that the terrorists used a flammable liquid to set fire to the rooms of the concert hall where the audience, including the wounded, were.
  12. 23 Mar 2024, 15:30 Moscow time · ResponsibilityVladimir Putin, President of Russia: They tried to escape and were moving towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window had been prepared for them from the Ukrainian side to cross the state border.
  13. 23 Mar 2024, 16:29 Moscow time · TollInvestigative Committee of Russia: As the rubble at the Crocus City Hall concert hall is cleared, the number of dead in the terrorist attack has risen to 133. The search continues
  14. 23 Mar 2024, 19:32 Moscow time · ResponsibilityProsecutor General's Office; Moscow region prosecutor's office: reports that the building had not been put into use and was missing from Rosreestr's cadastral map do not correspond to reality
  15. 23 Mar 2024, 20:23 Moscow time · ResponsibilityProsecutor General's Office of Russia: It has been established that all the necessary inspections were carried out in full
  16. 24 Mar 2024, 13:55 Moscow time · ResponsibilityAlexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee: During the meeting the Chairman of the Investigative Committee also ordered a check of the fire safety of the building, and of whether the emergency exit doors were open.
  17. 24 Mar 2024, 16:55 Moscow time · TollInvestigative Committee of Russia: The identification of the bodies of the dead continues. So far the bodies of 137 people have been found at the scene of the attack, three of them children.
  18. 25 Mar 2024, 15:20 Moscow time · ResponsibilityAlexander Khinshtein, State Duma deputy: By law, private security organisations today are not required to post armed guards at places where crowds gather
  19. 25 Mar 2024, 21:35 Moscow time · ResponsibilityVladimir Putin, President of Russia: We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists, whose ideology the Islamic world itself has been fighting for centuries.
  20. 25 Mar 2024, 21:35 Moscow time · TollAlexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee: 139 people died in the attack. 75 of them have been identified today. Three children are among the dead.
  21. 25 Mar 2024, 21:35 Moscow time · ResponsibilityIgor Krasnov, Prosecutor General of Russia: The building's security passport was approved on 17 December 2018 and has not been updated since, and unfortunately it does not take account of the existing terrorist threats.
  22. 25 Mar 2024, 21:35 Moscow time · CauseAlexander Kurenkov, Minister of Emergencies: The building was equipped with an automatic fire alarm system. At the time of the fire, this system worked as designed.

Later: investigation, courts, official findings

  1. 26 Mar 2024, 13:36 Moscow time · ResponsibilityDmitry Peskov, the President's press secretary: while the investigation is under way, the official authorities cannot allow themselves to make any statements on this
  2. 26 Mar 2024, 13:45 Moscow time · ResponsibilityNikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council: "Of course, Ukraine," he told journalists, answering the question whether ISIS (a terrorist organisation banned in Russia) or Ukraine was behind this attack.
  3. 26 Mar 2024, 14:35 Moscow time · ResponsibilityIgor Krasnov, Prosecutor General of Russia: The terrorist attack at Crocus City is a new challenge for the whole law enforcement system, above all in terms of the protection of places where crowds gather.
  4. 26 Mar 2024, 15:13 Moscow time · ResponsibilityAlexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB: We believe the action was prepared both by the radical Islamists themselves and, naturally, with help from Western intelligence services, and Ukraine's intelligence services themselves are directly involved in it
  5. 27 Mar 2024, 17:29 Moscow time · TollInvestigative Committee of Russia: The Investigative Committee has received 143 statements from victims about relatives or friends missing as a result of the terrorist act. Of these, 84 bodies of the dead have so far been identified, including the bodies of five children aged 9 to 16.
  6. 27 Mar 2024, 22:11 Moscow time · ResponsibilityDmitry Peskov, the President's press secretary: If we still cannot state any single version because the investigation is continuing, it is strange, to say the least, that the Americans take it upon themselves to declare one single version
  7. 28 Mar 2024, 17:45 Moscow time · ResponsibilityInvestigative Committee of Russia: Work with the detained terrorists, examination of the technical devices seized from them and analysis of financial transactions have produced evidence of their links with Ukrainian nationalists.
  8. 29 Mar 2024, 13:55 Moscow time · TollMikhail Murashko, Minister of Health: Another person injured in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, who had severe gunshot wounds and was in an extremely serious condition, died in hospital, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko told journalists on Friday.
  9. 29 Mar 2024, 18:53 Moscow time · ResponsibilityInvestigative Committee of Russia: On the coordinator's instructions, after the crime the terrorists drove towards the Russian-Ukrainian border in order to cross it and reach Kyiv to receive the reward promised to them.
  10. 30 Mar 2024, 12:53 Moscow time · TollEmergencies Ministry, Moscow region directorate: As of 06:00 on 30.03.2024, 695 people (including 15 children) were affected by the terrorist attack, 144 of whom died (including 5 children)
  11. 2 Apr 2024, 15:00 Moscow time · ResponsibilityVladimir Putin, President of Russia: But I will add that the actions of all the law enforcement, control and supervisory services and commercial organisations responsible for this large building, where the terrorist attack took place, are now being assessed as a whole.
  12. 4 Apr 2024, 14:25 Moscow time · ResponsibilityVladimir Putin, President of Russia: No other aims can be seen, and there are none, because Russia cannot be a target of terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists.
  13. 5 Apr 2024, 08:00 Moscow time · ResponsibilityInvestigative Committee of Russia: A set of investigative actions and operational measures continues to check whether representatives of Ukrainian intelligence services and international Islamist terrorist organisations were involved in organising and financing the terrorist attack.
  14. 24 Apr 2024, 11:32 Moscow time · ResponsibilityIgor Krasnov, Prosecutor General of Russia: A full assessment has yet to be made, but it can already be said that the scale of the terrorist attack showed the need to revise the legal rules on security at such buildings
  15. 30 Apr 2024, 13:36 Moscow time · TollAndrei Vorobyov, Governor of the Moscow region: 40 days ago the tragedy at Crocus took 145 lives. Another 551 people were injured. A huge number of people did not stand aside. Together we collected more than 1.6 billion roubles in the Russian Red Cross fund to help the families of the dead and the injured.
  16. 24 May 2024, 08:15 Moscow time · ResponsibilityAlexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB: the preparations, financing, attack and escape of the terrorists were coordinated over the internet by members of the "Vilayat Khorasan" group (the Afghan branch of the terrorist organisation ISIS, banned in Russia), who were in the Afghan-Pakistani zone
  17. 24 May 2024, 08:15 Moscow time · ResponsibilityAlexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB: The investigation continues, but it can already be said with confidence that Ukraine's military intelligence is directly involved in this attack
  18. 31 May 2024, 12:19 Moscow time · ResponsibilityBasmanny District Court of Moscow (court documents); Investigative Committee: A criminal case opened on 25 March 2024 under article 238(3) of the Criminal Code (providing services that do not meet safety requirements, causing the death of two or more people by negligence) has been joined to this criminal case
  19. 22 Mar 2025, 09:00 Moscow time · ResponsibilityInvestigative Committee of Russia: On the basis of the evidence gathered, the investigation concluded that the terrorist act was planned and organised by the special services of an unfriendly state to destabilise the situation in Russia. Members of an international terrorist organisation were recruited to carry it out.
  20. 23 Jun 2025, 17:10 Moscow time · TollInvestigative Committee of Russia: 149 people died in the terrorist act, one is missing, and 609 people suffered wounds and injuries of varying severity. The total damage from the attack came to about 6 billion roubles.
  21. 23 Jun 2025, 17:10 Moscow time · ResponsibilityInvestigative Committee of Russia: The investigation has established that this inhuman crime was planned and committed in the interests of Ukraine's current leadership in order to destabilise the political situation in our country.
  22. 1 Jul 2025, 14:39 Moscow time · TollProsecutor General's Office of Russia: As a result of these actions, 147 people died and 336 suffered bodily injuries. The damage caused came to 5.7 billion roubles. In addition, three people are missing.
  23. 12 Mar 2026, 11:31 Moscow time · Toll2nd Western District Military Court: As a result, 147 people died, three people are missing, 336 suffered bodily injuries, and at least 1,971 people were put in danger of death. The damage caused came to 5.7 billion roubles.
  24. 12 Mar 2026 · Responsibility2nd Western District Military Court (as worded by the Prosecutor General's Office): The court established that two wanted citizens of Tajikistan and unidentified persons, acting in the interests of Ukraine's top political leadership, organised in the Russian Federation the activities of three cells of the "Vilayat Khorasan" group, which is part of the international terrorist organisation "Islamic State".

Timeline: key decisions

Decrees, resignations, appointments, verdicts, laws and memorials. All statements, inspections, cases and money are in the full timeline.

  1. 24 Mar 2024, 08:00 Moscow timeMemorial. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia (who declared the day of mourning in his address of 23 March): Russia observed a national day of mourning.
    “A day of mourning began in Russia on Sunday, 24 March, for those killed in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on Friday evening.”
    Интерфакс, archive copy
  2. 24 Mar 2024, 17:45 Moscow timeMemorial. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia: Putin paid his respects to the dead (at Novo-Ogaryovo).
    “Vladimir Putin paid his respects to those killed in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.”
    Сайт Президента России, archive copy
  3. 21 May 2024, 16:58 Moscow timeMemorial. Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee: Bastrykin presented the Investigative Committee's medal "Valour and Courage" to five visitors and staff who had rescued people.
    “Investigators established the role of eyewitnesses of the tragic events who did not stay indifferent and, at risk to themselves, rushed to save other people's lives rather than their own.”
    Следственный комитет России, archive copy
  4. 8 Jul 2024Memorial. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia (decree on the award): Putin posthumously awarded the Order of Courage to a concert-goer killed while trying to stop one of the attackers.
    “For courage and valour shown in performing his civic duty”
    Известия, archive copy
  5. 20 Nov 2024Law. State Duma (as reported by RIA Novosti): The State Duma passed the law "On private security activity". According to RIA Novosti, security firms guarding places where crowds gather will have to do so with firearms; the laws take effect on 1 September 2026.
    “Moreover, private security organisations guarding places where crowds gather will be obliged to do so with firearms.”
    РИА Новости, archive copy
  6. 24 Dec 2024, 18:51 Moscow timeMemorial. Sergei Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow: Sobyanin presented the medal "For saving the perishing" to two Moscow schoolboys who had rescued people in the hall.
    “They received the medals "For saving the perishing" for their brave and decisive actions in saving people on 22 March 2024 at the Crocus City Hall concert hall.”
    Интерфакс, archive copy
  7. 22 Mar 2025, 12:39 Moscow timeMemorial. Andrei Vorobyov, Governor of the Moscow region: A memorial — two steles with cranes — was unveiled by the concert hall; Vorobyov spoke at the opening.
    “"In memory of the victims of the terrorist act of 22 March 2024", reads the inscription on the monument.”
    РИА Новости, archive copy
  8. 12 Mar 2026, 11:31 Moscow timeVerdict. 2nd Western District Military Court: The court convicted all 19 defendants: 15 to life imprisonment, one to 22 years 6 months, three to 19 years 11 months, with fines of 500,000 to 2.7 million roubles; per the verdict 147 people died, three are missing and 336 suffered bodily injuries.
    “As a result, 147 people died, three people are missing, 336 suffered bodily injuries, and at least 1,971 people were put in danger of death. The damage caused came to 5.7 billion roubles.”
    Генеральная прокуратура России, archive copy
  9. 12 Mar 2026Verdict. 2nd Western District Military Court (as worded by the Prosecutor General's Office): According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the court found that two wanted citizens of Tajikistan and unidentified persons, "acting in the interests of Ukraine's top political leadership", organised three cells of the "Vilayat Khorasan" group, part of "Islamic State", in Russia.
    “The court established that two wanted citizens of Tajikistan and unidentified persons, acting in the interests of Ukraine's top political leadership, organised in the Russian Federation the activities of three cells of the "Vilayat Khorasan" group, which is part of the international terrorist organisation "Islamic State".”
    Генеральная прокуратура России, archive copy

Full timeline: 78 entries, 22 Mar 2024 to 6 Apr 2026 →

Promises after the emergency

Every promise made after the event is a card in the promise ledger, with its status from documents.

Money

  1. 23 Mar 2024, 12:31 Moscow time₽3,000,000 to the family for each person killed — Sobyanin announced payments: 3 million roubles to the families of the dead and 500,000 to 1 million to the injured, including non-residents and foreigners; Moscow added monthly payments for children who lost a parent.
  2. 25 Mar 2024, 21:35 Moscow time₽3,000,000 to the family for each Moscow region resident killed — Vorobyov told the President of the Moscow region's payments: 3 million roubles to the family of each resident killed, 1 million to those in hospital, 500,000 to the injured; the first payments were made on 23 March.
  3. 9 Apr 2024, 13:01 Moscow time₽6m — The Social Fund had granted 69 survivor pensions and paid 6 million roubles of insurance for three deaths at work.

Attention over time

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