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[Global Network reporter Zhang Xiaoya and Liu Boyang] According to reports from Sputnik News Agency, Izvestia and other Russian media, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Republic of North Ossetia on the 20th local time, during which he revisited the Beslan School No. 1 where a terrorist attack occurred in 2004, killing more than 330 people. The scene showed that during the mourning period, Putin knelt on one knee and two knees at two memorial sites respectively, laying flowers for the victims of that year.

According to Xinhua News Agency, from September 1 to 3, 2004, the First School in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, was suddenly attacked by terrorists. About 1,200 teachers, students and parents were taken hostage, and more than 330 people were killed.

According to the Kremlin's official website, the school has now become a memorial complex, and the walls of the gymnasium where the militants took hostages are covered with photos of the victims. The scene showed Putin kneeling on one knee to lay flowers to the cross in the gymnasium.

According to the Russian newspaper Izvestia, Putin also visited the "City of Angels" memorial cemetery, where 266 victims of the Beslan hostage crisis in 2004 are buried, most of whom are children. The scene showed that he knelt on his knees and laid flowers at the monument to the victims named "Tree of Sorrow" in the cemetery.

When Putin met with the mothers of the students who died, he also said, "This tragedy is an unhealable wound in the historical memory of all Russia."