"Vladimir Putin has strongly condemned this barbaric crime and expressed conviction that those who committed and ordered it must be punished. The Russian president expressed sympathy and support for the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to all who suffered in the terrorist attack," the Kremlin's press service said in a statement on Saturday.
Earlier in the day, the Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the attack on a mosque in Kano and expressed its support for the local authorities in fight against Boko Haram extremist group.
On Friday, several bomb explosions and gunfire near the central mosque in the Nigerian city of Kano killed at least 120 people and injured more than 270 people, according to the latest reports. Boko Haram group is suspected of having carried out the attack.
Boko Haram is a violent Nigerian military group that aims to impose sharia law on the territory of Nigeria and is behind the majority of the terrorist attacks in the country.
