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Death to All (Death Tribute) Announce “The Scream of Perseverance Tour”

Cryptopsy will provide support on the extensive North American outing

Death to All — the all-star tribute outfit honoring the band Death and its late frontman Chuck Schuldiner — have announced a 2024 North American tour that will celebrate two eras of the legendary death metal act. The trek will feature support from Cryptopsy.

The outing, dubbed “The Scream of Perseverance Tour,” will find Death to All performing two shows in most cities. The first night will feature the band playing the classic Scream Bloody Gore in full, as well as classic tunes from Leprosy and Spiritual Healing . The second night will find the band performing The Sound of Perseverance  in its entirety, along with songs from Human , Individual Thought Patterns , and Symbolic . In cities where Death to All play only one concert, the shows will feature an all-encompassing “greatest classics” setlist.

The tour kicks off with a two-night stand at the Milwaukee Metal Fest on May 18th and 19th, and runs through a June 29th show in Phoenix. A Live Nation pre-sale is under way using the code ENERGY , while general sales start Friday (February 9th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster . Fans can also check for deals or pick up tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub , where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

Death to All’s band members include singer-guitarist Max Phelps (Exist, Cynic), drummer Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel, Testament, Dethklok), bassist Steve DiGiorgio (Testament, Sadus), and guitarist Bobby Koelble (Death).

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“We’ll be joined by our good friends, the legendary Cryptopsy, who have some special plans of their own for this tour,” stated Hoglan. “Death to All is extremely pleased to be bringing these special nights to the fans of the one and only Chuck Schuldiner… as only Death to All can…his entire DEATH legacy! As Chuck liked to say, ‘Let the Metal flow.’ You’ll want to catch every night possible.”

See the full list of tour dates below. Pick up tickets here , and learn about VIP upgrades here .

Death to All 2024 Tour Dates with Cryptopsy: 05/18 – Milwaukee, WI @ Milwaukee Metal Fest ^ 05/19 – Milwaukee, WI @ Milwaukee Metal Fest * 05/21 – Columbus, OH @ The King of Clubs # 05/22 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts # 05/23 – New York City, NY @ Gramercy Theatre * 05/24 – New York City, NY @ Gramercy Theatre ^ 05/25 – Boston, MA @ The Middle East * 05/26 – Boston, MA @ The Middle East ^ 05/28 – Montreal, QC @ Le National * 05/29 – Montreal, QC @ Le National ^ 05/30 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre * 05/31 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre ^ 06/01 – London, ON @ London Music Hall # 06/02 – Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick # 06/04 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall * 06/05 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall ^ 06/07 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada # 06/08 – Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater * 06/09 – Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater ^ 06/11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall # 06/13 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre * 06/14 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre ^ 06/15 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile * 06/16 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile ^ 06/18 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre * 06/19 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre ^ 06/21 – Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone * 06/22 – Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone ^ 06/23 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst # 06/25 – San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick * 06/26 – San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick ^ 06/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater * 06/28 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater ^ 06/29 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Nile Theater #

* = Scream Bloody Gore in its entirety plus classics from Leprosy and Spiritual Healing ^ = The Sound of Perseverance in its entirety classics from Human , Individual Thought Pattern s and Symbolic # = From First to Last – the Greatest classics from every Death album

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Unfortunately in 2001, metal music lost a very well respected artist, Chuck Suldiner, the guitarist and vocalist for the American metal band, Death. But fear not metal world, because Death DTA tours has come together to bring you the best of the tribute bands for Death. According to their facebook page, “The DEATH DTA tours was randomly named to make it clear that it is not an attempt to re-launch DEATH but is a tribute to Chuck & DEATH by the people who knew Chuck - his musicians, family & manager.“

Regardless of what exactly it is made up of, it is an opportunity to rock out and mosh to a great band that deserves only the best tribute. The tour does an extremely good job of delivering exactly what Death fans are looking for and it is done with the upmost respect. There is still just as much face-melting, guitar rocking, sometimes overwhelming (but in the best way possible) music from Death that is executed almost to the tee. Since I have never seen Death live before the unfortunate passing of Chuck, I can’t compare, but I can say that it was a show and an experience, one that I do not regret having.

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DEATH TO ALL Feat. GENE HOGLAN And STEVE DIGIORGIO: March/April 2023 North American Tour Announced

DEATH TO ALL ( DTA ) — which features former members of DEATH celebrating the life and music of Chuck Schuldiner — will embark on a North American tour in March. The trek will kick off on March 2 in Seattle, Washington and will conclude on April 1 in Denver, Colorado. Support on the tour will come from SUFFOCATION and NUKEM .

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Mar. 02 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon Mar. 04 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre Mar. 06 - Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post Mar. 08 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco Mar. 09 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory Mar. 11 - San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick Mar. 12 - Mesa, AZ @ The Nile Theater Mar. 14 - Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live Mar. 15 - Dallas, TX @ Amplified Live Mar. 16 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall Mar. 17 - New Orleans, LA @ The House Of Blues Mar. 18 - Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum Mar. 19 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade Mar. 21 - Greensboro, NC @ Hangar 1819 Mar. 22 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage Mar. 23 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts Mar. 25 - Boston, MA @ The Middle East Mar. 26 - Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre Mar. 27 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House Mar. 28 - Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop Mar. 29 - Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues Mar. 30 - Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theatre Apr. 01 - Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall

The current lineup of DEATH TO ALL includes Gene Hoglan (also of TESTAMENT , DARK ANGEL , DETHKLOK ), Steve DiGiorgio ( TESTAMENT , CONTROL DENIED , SADUS ) on bass and Bobby Koelble on guitar. Max Phelps ( CYNIC ),who has been touring with DEATH TO ALL , is once again handling the vocal and second-guitar duties.

In a 2014 interview with Metal Rules , DiGiorgio was asked what DEATH TO ALL means to him. He responded: "Our formulated answer is that it is a tribute memorializing the memory of Chuck . To me, it means getting back with buddies. And you've seen their lineup change a little bit here, we had Paul [ Masvidal ] and Sean [ Reinert ] from CYNIC . We had Shannon Hamm in for a while. And now Gene and Bobby . I've jammed with all these guys over the years. They're pretty much some of the best musicians in the world. At least in my opinion."

He continued: "We did those albums back in the day, and when our cycle was over, and when whoever lasted however long, we went our own ways. Now we're back together again and it's cool, from my point of view, to do music with some of the best, amazing musicians/guys in the world. It's awesome. And we have a lot of fun every night, man, because we all realize that not only did we make a statement 20-something years ago, but here we are 20-something years later in our mid-40s playing that stuff as we did as young men. It's kind of, like, yay us. Because we are only just a few years off of 50 and we're playing this music we did just turning the corner into 20 and we're doing it pretty good. And that's not a brag. The reason is we push each other. Somebody falls a little bit behind and this guy's right behind him. You don't want to let your guard down, because everybody's really good at what they do. And that's what it means to me, man. It means to carry on what we did back then with no idea where we'd be in the future, and here we are doing it with conviction."

Schuldiner died on December 13, 2001 after a battle with pontine glioma, a rare type of brain tumor.

In recent years, DEATH 's storied catalog has undergone a meticulous reissue campaign via Relapse Records .

Relapse released the first-ever fully authorized DEATH tab book, featuring 21 classic songs tabbed out for guitar from the band's entire discography. The book, which includes traditional notation as well as tablature, also comes with a digital download of all tracks.

In a 2011 interview with Bass Musician magazine, DiGiorgio stated about working with Schuldiner : "Sometimes people make good music together, and sometimes they vibe like yin and fucking yang. Chuck is credited with a lot of things in the music world (metal world, of course),but one thing a lot of people don't know much about is how aware he was. What I mean is that he was a good listener. If I thought of a wacky bassline to something he was writing, before I could even try to explain why it came to me, he was already ahead of it and looking for something on the next part. He had a good sense of when to hold me back and when to push me. It was great to have someone, especially the 'main man' of the band not only appreciate what I contributed but also help me find my inner demon to conjure even sicker and more abstract things to play. There really was some math going on in that roiling storm sometimes."

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John Sinclair, Former MC5 Manager and Counterculture Activist, Dies at 82

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John Sinclair, the counterculture activist and former MC5 manager who helped define that proto-punk ensemble’s radical politics, died on Tuesday at 82.

Sinclair’s death from congestive heart failure at the Detroit Receiving Hospital was first reported by the Detroit News and confirmed by a representative for his family.

“Sinclair is one of those ‘a lot of things to a lot of people’ kind of guys,” Kramer told Billboard in 2018. “He has a lot of passions, a lot of interests, a lot of causes that he maintains … Not always a saint or the easiest guy to get along with, and sometimes we hated him. But I would say he was a mentor and a friend.” It was through the MC5 that Sinclair found his greatest fame. In 1966, the Motor City rock band got a regular gig at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom where they met Sinclair – a radical political writer and White Panther Party leader nicknamed the “King of the Hippies” – and by the next year made him the group’s manager. In turn, Sinclair made them into the official house band of the White Panthers and fueled their radical politics. After bringing the MC5 to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago (where they became the only band to perform there before police broke up the massive anti-Vietnam war rally) Sinclair got the band signed to Elektra for its 1969’s live album debut, “Kick Out the Jams.” “He was as a very important part in what the MC5 became,” Kramer said. John Sinclair was born in Flint, Michigan on October 2, 1941. After enrolling at Albion College in 1960, he dropped out during freshman year. When he attended the Flint College of the University of Michigan, he became part of the university’s school newspaper, The Word , with his interest in writing and publishing acting as clear goals for his future.

After his college graduation in 1964, Sinclair began work as a writer for the jazz magazine DownBeat, and in 1965, delved into poetry, winning high marks with his reading at the now-legendary Berkeley Poetry Conference. By 1967, he and his wife, Leni Sinclair, founded the underground newspaper, the Ann Arbor Sun . Along with becoming a White Panther Party leader around this same time, Sinclair’s building advocacy of marijuana began to get him in trouble. With two prior convictions for marijuana possession to his name, Sinclair was arrested in 1969 for possession of two joints (he tried to sell them to an undercover police officer) and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The severity of the sentence led many in the music world to rally on his behalf. At the Woodstock festival that summer, Yippie honcho Abbie Hoffman was thrown off the stage by Pete Townshend for attempting to give a speech about Sinclair during the Who’s set (the group had no problem with Sinclair, and in fact singer Roger Daltrey later often wore a “Free John Sinclair t-shirt; the issue was over interrupting their set). And not only did John Lennon record his song, “John Sinclair” for his and Yoko Ono’s 1972 album, “Some Time in New York City,” the couple, along with Detroit natives Bob Seger and Stevie Wonder, attended a 1971 freedom rally in Ann Arbor in solidarity with Sinclair. Sinclair was released from prison two days after the rally.

“John was on the forefront of the marijuana movement,” Matt Lee told The Detroit News . “But I don’t think people realized how knowledgeable he was in American music and he was a certified expert in all forms of American jazz and rhythm and blues.”

Along with releasing albums, reading poetry and writing essays on cannabis, he created the John Sinclair Foundation in 2004, an Amsterdam-based, non-profit organization to ensure the preservation and presentation of all of his work in the arts, letters, and cannabis legalization efforts.

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In Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, the solar eclipse will brighten mud season

The locals are planning for thousands to descend upon their remote corner of the state, where the solar eclipse on april 8 will last the longest. just how many thousands is anybody’s guess..

NEWPORT, Vt. — Two years ago, Fritz Halbedl answered the phone at the quaint country inn he and his wife Paula run outside of town here, a stone’s throw from the Canadian border.

“Some guy,” Fritz Halbedl said, in the thick accent of his native Austria, “tells me he wants to reserve a room for the eclipse. And I’m saying, ‘What eclipse?’ ”

Halbedl had no idea then of the coming celestial event, much less that it would be a rare daytime “totality” that would block the sun for 3 minutes across a swath of northern New England next Monday and attract untold thousands of eclipse pilgrims to the empty — and usually pretty sleepy — expanses here. But the phone kept ringing, as it did at inns and motels and farmhouses across the region. In no time, each of Derby Line Village Inn’s five rooms were booked.

According to local hotel and innkeepers, there now isn’t a room to be found anywhere in the 70-to-80-mile-wide swath of the eclipse’s path across northern Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Locals in Newport say rooms in private homes are fetching up to $1,000 a night.

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And still “I’m getting 15 calls a day,” Paula Halbedl said, rolling her eyes as she made tea for a guest. “I’m not even answering them anymore because I can’t get my work done.”

The eclipse, the first total eclipse in northern New England since 1932, is by all accounts an international phenomenon. But predictions of just how many people will actually come vary wildly, with some official estimates in Vermont ranging as high as 200,000, equivalent to about one-third of the state’s population. Officials said the number could be much lower, however, in the tens of thousands rather than hundreds of thousands, particularly if clouds roll in, as they typically do more than half the days in early April.

One way or another, most everyone is preparing for a tsunami. Vermont has ordered schools closed, urged commercial vehicles to pick alternative delivery days and instituted size limits on trucks on April 8, the day of the eclipse. The state is opening about a dozen state parks early and bringing in dozens of mobile satellite trucks and cell towers on wheels, known in the industry as “cows,” to deal with a sudden surge in cellphone activity.

If it’s a clear, sunny day, Vermont’s two interstate highways, I-89 and I-91, are expected to be jammed with last-minute viewers streaming north from Boston and other points south.

In Newport, merchants are stocking up, eclipse T-shirts have been printed, and there is an air of excitement among the city’s 4,000 residents.

Rick Ufford-Chase, director of Newport City Downtown Development, which works to promote the area’s four-season outdoor recreation economy and has organized events for the eclipse, said the city is prepared for whatever the eclipse brings.

“We’ll have between 500 and 5,000 people on the day, depending on the weather,” he said, that latter figure more than doubling the local population.

As in 1932, the last time a solar eclipse passed through, locals and visitors will congregate for a viewing party at Gardner Memorial Park overlooking Lake Memphremagog, where food trucks and vendors, and a bevy of portable toilets, will be set up. Bill Vinton from the Northeast Kingdom Astronomy Foundation will explain to the assembled crowd the ins and outs of the eclipse. Back in 1932, Newport enjoyed a clear view of the eclipse, but astronomers who traveled up from Swarthmore College and chose to view it in the next town over had their view obscured by clouds. That’s weather in the Kingdom.

“We’re trying to do a show that’s northern New England, very Northeast Kingdom. Nothing fancy,” Ufford-Chase said. “No bells and whistles. Just what local folks want to do and everybody’s invited to be a part of it.”

The local benchmark for unexpected, overwhelming crowds is the 2004 outdoor concert at a farm in nearby Coventry by Phish, the iconic jam band that formed in Vermont and has a large, loyal following. Interstate 91 was a parking lot, literally, as some of the nearly 70,000 fans who streamed north for the concert abandoned their cars on the highway, some walking up to 30 miles to get to the show.

Heavy rains turned the concert site into a muddy mess. Locals remember mud-caked Phish fans wandering into Newport and other nearby towns looking for something to eat and a shower.

“It wasn’t a little Woodstock, it was Woodstock,” said Rick Woodward, who owns the landmark Montgomery Ward building in the middle of Newport’s small downtown.

Woodward said local restaurants, cafes, and specialty shops are usually very quiet this time of year, known as mud season because the melting snow turns dirt roads in the more rural areas into mush.

The natural foods market and cafe that Woodward owns will be hopping next week.

“Everybody is bringing in extra staff,” Woodward said.

A few miles outside of downtown, in neighboring Derby, the people who run Kushies, a cannabis shop, hope to be swamped by eclipse viewers.

Store manager Raeven Petell said they have stocked up on product, and are holding a solar eclipse sale.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if 15,000 people show up around here,” said Damian Deskins, a grower for Kushies. “After a pretty dull winter, without a lot of snow, this is pretty exciting.”

Kushies will be handing out eclipse viewing glasses.

At the MAC Center for the Arts, an artists collaborative on Newport’s Main Street, Sarah Gleason said the gallery, normally closed on Sundays and Mondays, will stay open for the swell of potential eclipse viewing customers who will spend those days shopping.

Gleason, who volunteers at the gallery, says she intends to avoid the crowds and watch the eclipse from the comfort of her front yard.

Back at the Derby Line Village Inn, Fritz Halbedl felt obliged to call a woman from Rhode Island who had just sent him a plaintive email, begging for a room so she could drive up and see the eclipse.

“She picked up on the first ring,” Fritz Halbedl said. “She said, ‘Oh my God, I knew you would call me with the good news.’ And I said, ‘Lady, please, you are two years too late.’ She started crying.”

Kevin Cullen is a Globe reporter and columnist who roams New England. He can be reached at [email protected] .

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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un sends condolences to Russia’s Putin over deadly Moscow attack

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has offered his condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin following the deadly concert attack in Moscow, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Sunday.

Kim “expressed deep condolences and sympathy” to Putin, the Russian people, the victims and their families on the news of heavy casualties caused by a “large-scale terrorist attack in (the) Moscow region,” KCNA reported.

North Korea opposes “all sorts of terrorism and nothing can justify the heinous terrorism threatening human life,” Kim said in the KCNA report. “Our people regard the misfortune and sorrow of the friendly Russian people as their own pain.”

ISIS releases graphic video they claim shows Russia concert hall attack

From CNN's Kareem El Damanhoury and Paul Murphy

ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq released a graphic video on Saturday that purports to show Friday’s attack at a concert hall in suburban Moscow recorded by one of the attackers, suggesting the perpetrators had a direct link to ISIS in order to be able to send the video.

CNN has geolocated it to the concert hall and notes that its identifying metadata has been erased.

The video, which is about 90 seconds long, shows four attackers with their faces blurred and voices distorted in what appears to be the Crocus City Hall complex.

The video shows one attacker signaling to another gunman, who then walks past a door where people are hiding and opens fire on them.

Bodies and blood can be seen on the floor, with fire raging at a distance.

The video also shows one of the attackers slitting the throat of a man lying on his back.

The video ends with the four attackers walking away inside the building as smoke can be seen at a distance.

On Friday, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, according to a short statement published by Amaq.

On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Ukraine was behind the attack, stating the perpetrators had “tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the border.”

Ukraine has vehemently denied any connection to Friday's attack.

Company that owns Crocus City Hall venue calls attack a "monstrous tragedy"

From CNN's Masha Angelova

The Russian company Crocus International, which owns Crocus City Hall, expressed its deep condolences in a statement Sunday to the victims of the terrorist attack at the concert hall in the Moscow region Friday, which left more than 130 people dead.

"Together with the whole of Russia, we mourn the dead and hope for a speedy recovery of those who’ve suffered in this monstrous tragedy," the company said. "In these difficult days, we are doing and will do everything possible to help the authorities and special services with their difficult work, and together with the whole country help victims of the terrorist attack."

The statement thanked concert-goers, partners and artists for their support and assistance.

"Special thanks to the concert hall team, who acted professionally, clearly, and heroically in a crisis situation, and thanks to this, managed to save most of the guests and employees who were in Crocus City Hall that evening," it continued.

White House says there was "no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever" in Moscow region onslaught

From CNN's Natasha Bertrand and Samantha Waldenberg

US Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House National Security Council said there is no evidence that Ukraine is behind the attack at a concert hall near Moscow.

“There is no, whatsoever, any evidence — and in fact, what we know to be the case is that ISIS-K is actually, by all accounts, responsible for what happened,” Harris said in an interview with ABC News. “What has happened is an act of terrorism and the number of people who've been killed is obviously a tragedy and we should all send our condolences to those families."

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said:

"In early March, the US government shared information with Russia about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow. We also issued a public advisory to Americans in Russia on March 7. ISIS bears sole responsibility for this attack. There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever."

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Here's what you should know about the moscow area concert venue shooting.

From CNN staff

A Friday night attack at Crocus City Hall, a popular concert venue complex near Moscow, left more than 130 people killed and even more wounded after assailants stormed the venue with guns and incendiary devices. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, without providing evidence.

Four suspects involved in the attack were detained in the Bryansk region and taken to Moscow, where they are now in the custody of Russia's Investigative Committee, Russian state media TASS reported Saturday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said "miserable" Russian President Vladimir Putin waited   overnight before publicly addressing Russians, only to accuse   Ukraine of having a hand in the terror attack at a concert hall near Moscow.

Here are other headlines you should know:

• More on the attack: According to the interior ministry, “all terrorists detained in the Bryansk region are foreign citizens ,” Russian state media reported. RIA Novosti published on Telegram the purported confession of one of the apprehended men. CNN cannot independently verify the RIA Novosti report or the statements made by the alleged attacker, which may have been made under duress.
• Ukraine vehemently denies any connection: Defense Intelligence of Ukraine spokesperson Andrii Yusov firmly denied his country had anything to do with the terror attack. Earlier Saturday, Putin  told the Russian people  that the perpetrators had “tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the border." A handful of Russian officials have suggested  without evidence  that Ukraine may have been involved in the attack as well.
• Global reactions: Leaders around the world — such as the French, Israeli and Turkish presidents — have expressed their condolences and condemnation of the onslaught. The United States “ strongly condemns ” the shooting, according to the White House and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also denounced the attack , stressing that ISIS is a significant global threat at a news conference Saturday.
• Belarus claims it thwarted suspects: Belarusian special services helped Russia prevent the "terrorists" who allegedly carried out the deadly attack from escaping across the border Friday night, the country's ambassador in Moscow said.
• Estimated damage total: The total estimated damage to the Moscow region's Crocus City Hall after Friday's terror attack is between 9.5-11.4 billion rubles, or approximately $103-124 million, according to a shopping union vice president, as reported by Russian state media RIA Novosti.

Zelensky accuses Putin of trying to blame concert hall attack on Ukraine

From CNN's Maria Kostenko

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said "miserable" Russian President Vladimir Putin waited overnight before publicly addressing Russians, only to accuse Ukraine of having a hand in the terror attack at a concert hall near Moscow.

On Saturday, Putin told the Russian people that the perpetrators of the Crocus City Hall attack had “tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the border.”

Zelensky and several Ukrainian officials have vehemently denied Ukraine has any kind of involvement in the attack.

In his nightly address, Zelensky also said that Russians "have come to Ukraine, burn our cities – and try to blame Ukraine."

Zelensky added that if the Russian people do "not ask any questions to their security and intelligence agencies, then Putin will try to turn such a situation to his personal advantage again."

More background: The terror group ISIS claimed responsibility for Russia's attack, according to a short statement published by ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq on Telegram Friday. ISIS has not provided evidence to support the claim.

Earlier this week, Putin had dismissed warnings by the US embassy that there could be terrorist attacks on large groups, telling the Federal Security Service (FSB) that the embassy warnings were "provocative" and "outright blackmail."

White House "strongly condemns" Moscow region terror attack

From CNN’s Samantha Waldenberg

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Saturday that the United States “strongly condemns” the terrorist attack at a concert venue complex near Moscow that left at least 133 people dead.

She added that ISIS, which has claimed responsibility for the attack without providing evidence, is a “common terrorist enemy that must be defeated everywhere.”

“We extend our deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones and to those who were injured or affected by these unconscionable attacks against innocent civilians," Jean-Pierre said in a statement issued by the White House. "ISIS is a common terrorist enemy that must be defeated everywhere."

4 suspects in Friday's attack are being questioned by Russian investigators, state media reports

Four suspects in Friday's terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall were detained in the Bryansk region and taken to Moscow, where they are now in the custody of Russia's Investigative Committee, Russian state media TASS reported Saturday.

The suspects were brought in two prisoner transport vehicles, which are still in the courtyard of the committee, a TASS correspondent reported. This indicates that the suspects are being interrogated and the investigation is ongoing, according to TASS.

In the coming days, investigators are expected to file a court motion asking for imprisonment as the chosen preventative measure. All four suspects face life imprisonment, TASS reports.

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