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Donald Trump, the target of an attempted assassination. Kremlin’s reaction

A shooting at Donald Trump‘s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the former president and presumptive Republican nominee, law enforcement officials say.One attendee was killed and two were critically injured. Trump said on social media that a bullet “pierced the upper part” of his right ear before agents whisked him off stage. The Secret Service said it killed the suspected shooter, who attacked from an elevated position outside the rally venue.

Kremlin's first reaction after the attempted assassination on Donald Trump

UPDATE After the armed attack on the former US president, Moscow on Sunday urged the United States to "take stock" of its "policies of inciting hatred against political opponents, countries and peoples", using the assassination attempt on Donald Trump to denounce US support for Kiev, informs lefigaro.fr.

Addressing "those who vote in the United States to provide arms to (Volodymyr) Zelenskiy," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denounced US support for Ukraine, which she accused of fueling "attacks against the Russian president". "Perhaps it would be better to use this money to fund the American police and other services that are supposed to ensure law and order in the United States," she said.

Chisinau condemns the assassination of former US President Donald Trump

UPDATE President Maia Sandu condemns the armed attack on the former US leader.

UPDATE French President Emmanuel Macron said the assassination attempt on Donald Trump is a tragedy for democracies around the world.

"My thoughts are with President Donald Trump, the victim of an assassination attempt, to whom I send my best wishes for a speedy recovery. One militant was killed and several were injured. This is a tragedy for our democracies. France shares the shock and outrage of the American people," Macron wrote on X.

UPDATE The Ukrainian president also condemned the assassination of the former US president. "Violence should never prevail," Volodymyr Zelensky said on X after the shootings at Donald Trump's rally.

Update. President Joe Biden has condemned the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, calling on all Americans to denounce such "sick" violence.

The US president was quick to call for unity in the hours after a gunman shot Trump in the ear, killed one member of the crowd and injured two others at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The gunman was shot dead by Secret Service agents. In a statement issued within an hour of the attack, Mr Biden said there was "no place in America for this. We must unite as one nation to condemn it. It's sick, it's sick".

Update: Former President Donald Trump was injured in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A shooter opened fire, injuring Trump's right ear. One spectator was killed and another two were injured.

The shooter is dead. The shots were fired from an elevated position outside the Secret Service's security perimeter for the venue, three senior law enforcement sources said.

The FBI has identified the shooter as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Witnesses on the ground described the terror and chaos unleashed by the shooting, from the initial uncertainty after hearing loud popping noises to the mass evacuation of the venue.

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