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Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a working meeting of the Russian Federation Security Council on the 23rd that the director of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service had informed him of the hostage-taking incident in Volgograd Oblast, and he would listen to reports on the incident from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Guard and other powerful agencies.

According to Russian media reports, three of the four hostage-takers were convicted of drug trafficking and one was sentenced to prison for manslaughter. The Russian Investigative Committee has filed a criminal case against the case. According to a video on social media, a suspected flag of the extremist organization "Islamic State" appeared in the video footage taken by the hostage-taker's mobile phone.

In June this year, six detainees in a detention center in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia, held two detention center staff members hostage at knifepoint. The six hostage-takers were shot dead by Russian special forces, and two hostages were rescued. Some of the hostage-takers were followers of the Islamic State and were detained for suspected involvement in terrorist activities.