Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered condolences to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the tragic effects of the terrorist attack in El Minya Province, the Kremlin's press-service said. "In his message the Russian leader pointed out that the killing of pilgrims, some of them women and children, came as yet another evidence of the barbaric, inhuman essence of terrorism. The attackers and masterminds of that atrocity must not go unpunished," the press-service said. Read also Putin urges to join efforts in war on terror "Several days ago Copt Patiarch Tavadros II reviewed the measures the Egyptian leadership was taking for the sake of preserving inter-confessional peace in the country," the presidential press-service quotes Putin as saying. "I am certain that terrorist forces will fail to intimidate the Egyptian people or breed discord among the followers of different religions," he said.