Twenty years ago, Putin commemorates the victims of the school hostage crisis.
After that, he headed to the school complex that was seized by Chechen assailants on September 1, 2004. This was the initial visit to the site of the hostage situation for Putin, who was serving as president at the time.
Chechen insurgents had captivated over a thousand individuals in Beslan, among them, numerous kids. When Russian law enforcement agencies assaulted the school on September 3, 2004, over 330 people suffered fatalities, with 186 of them being young children.
Russia experienced another horrific bout of violence in March. A terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall in a nearby Moscow suburb led to the loss of 145 lives. The Islamic State (IS) extremist organization declared responsibility for the incident.
The school complex where the hostage situation occurred was the same place he visited after the incident on September 1. Despite the passage of time, memories of the School tragedy still haunt Russia.
