In the press - Moscow attack: "The farce of the Kremlin's security policy". The attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow is also on the front page of French daily newspapers.

Le Monde sees Russia between "mourning and denial", with a majority of Russians believing in the guilt of the Ukrainians. Le Figaro evokes "the temptation" of Vladimir Putin to stick to "the single and convenient enemy, the anti-Russian West and its armed wing, the Ukrainian "Nazi" regime"