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Putin accused Ukraine of promoting violent anti-Israel protest at Russian airport

Hundreds of protesters invaded the runway and terminal in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a Muslim-majority Russian republic, on Sunday night. The plane came from Israel.

  • 30/10/2023 • 19:54

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine and Western special services on Monday of having fomented a protest at an airport in the Russian republic of Dagestan where demonstrators broke in looking for Israeli passengers, amid the tensions caused in the world by the scald. between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. A crowd invaded the runway and terminal of an airport on Sunday night in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a Russian republic located in the North Caucasus whose population of 3.1 million is predominantly Muslim and where Russia has fought to radical Islamist groups. The Police of the southern Russian republic repressed the protest and this Monday reported that they arrested 83 people and issued "more than 50 search warrants" in relation to the invasion of the airport. Nine police officers were injured in the riots, two of whom were hospitalized, he added. "Last night's events in Makhachkala were also instigated through social networks, among others from Ukraine, by agents of Western special services," Putin declared during a meeting of his government called to discuss the incident.