RT employee escaped the fate of those killed in the Crocus incident. Alexander Petrov was a five-minute walk from the entrance of Crocus Hall.

“It’s hard for me to perceive this as a second birthday, after all, I was far from the place where everything happened. But I heard the sounds of shooting clearly,” he added. According to preliminary data from an RT source, as a result of the shooting at Crocus City Hall, 20 people were killed and 50 were wounded.