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‘Terrorism must be defeated’: Trump calls Putin to condole over St. Petersburg Metro attack

US President Donald Trump has called Vladimir Putin to express his condolences over the bombing of the St. Petersburg Metro that killed at least 11 people. They agreed that Russia and the US should be fighting terrorism together, the Kremlin said.
Trump has extended “his deep condolences to the relatives and loved ones of those killed as result of a barbaric terrorist act,” Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, as cited by RIA Novosti.

“The presidents noted that terrorism is the evil against which it is necessary to fight together,” Peskov added. Putin, in turn, thanked his American counterpart for showing solidarity with the Russian people.

In a statement released following the conversation, the White House said that “both President Trump and President Putin agreed that terrorism must be decisively and quickly defeated.”

It went on to note that Trump pledged the “full support” of Washington to Moscow in “responding to the attack and bringing those responsible to justice.”

As the news on the blast broke, Trump was one of the first world leaders to express his sympathies calling the suspected attack “a terrible thing.”