For “external intervention” was what Moscow said on Monday commenting on the attacks on Israeli citizens and Jews at Dagestan’s Makhachkala Airport on a flight from Tel Aviv.

“Yesterday’s events at the Makhachkala airport are, to a large extent, result of external intervention”Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

The president Vladimir Putin is to meet with his top advisers, including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and intelligence chiefs, to discuss “Western efforts to use events in the Middle East to divide Russian society”Peskov added.

Several dozen men stormed the Makhachkala airportthe capital of the Russian republic when it was announced that an aircraft from Israel was going to land there. Mob storms airport looking for ‘Jews’ after flight from Tel Aviv arrivesforcing the authorities to intervene to remove them from the compound

Sixty people suspected of violently storming the airport in Makhachkalathe capital of the republic of Dagestan of the Russian Federation, were taken into custody, while nine police officers were injured in the incidents, Russian authorities announced today Monday.