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MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. Russia is grateful to Ukraine for offering condolences over the St. Petersburg metro attack, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
"I would like to express gratitude for the response that we have seen from Ukraine. The words that officials and people in Ukraine said have not gone unnoticed," she said.
"We are particularly grateful to you for that," Zakharova added.
On the afternoon of April 3, a bomb exploded in a metro car between Tekhnologichesky Institut station and Sennaya Ploshchad stations in St. Petersburg. Law enforcement sources say that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber. The blast killed 14 people while dozens were injured.