Putin vows to punish ambassador’s killers

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday vowed to punish those responsible for the assassination of his nation’s ambassador to Turkey.

Ambassador Andrey Karlov was shot and killed earlier Monday when a gunman opened fire in an art gallery located in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara.

“A crime has been committed and it is without a doubt a provocation aimed at spoiling the normalization of Russo-Turkish relations and spoiling the Syrian peace process which is being actively pushed by Russia, Turkey, Iran and others,” Putin said during a special Kremlin meeting in Moscow, according to Reuters.

 

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