Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the attack was a provocation to break the normalization of the relations between Turkiye and Russia in a statement that Russia made about the armed attack against the Russian’s Ankara Ambassador Andrey Karlov.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov and Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) President Sergey Narışkin held a security meeting with Putin, on the assassination of Russian’s Ankara Ambassador Andrey Karlov.

Putin said: "A murder has been committed. This, of course, is a provocation to disrupt the normalization of Russian-Turkish relations. It is also a provocation to disrupt the peace process in Syria, which is actively defended by other countries interested in resolving the conflict that negotiation between Russia, Turkiye, Iran and Syrian sides. We will investigate with Turkiye to find who is behind this murder. In this regard, we reached a deal with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on a telephone conversation. As Russia we need to know who is behind this attack.”  (ILKHA)