Bombing at Moscow Restaurant Kills Three, Injures 21, Russian Officials Say
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An explosion at a restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening killed three people and wounded 21 others, Russia’s national anti-terrorism committee confirmed, according to the Tass state news agency. The committee identified the incident as a bombing involving a homemade explosive device that detonated at the Balzi Rossi restaurant located in Kudrinskaya Square.
The three fatalities included the woman who was carrying the bomb into the restaurant, a security guard who attempted to stop her, and a customer present at the scene. The 21 injured individuals sustained wounds ranging in severity, the anti-terrorism committee reported. Moscow police and forensic experts were dispatched to the site to conduct an investigation, as stated in an earlier communication to the Ria Novosti news agency.
Images circulated on Russian Telegram channels showed emergency responders, including fire engines and ambulances, outside the building following the blast. The incident has heightened concerns about security in Moscow, a city that has experienced several terrorist attacks in recent years.
Since the onset of the war in Ukraine in 2022, Russia has accused Ukraine’s secret service of orchestrating or being involved in multiple attacks targeting Russian military personnel and public figures who support the conflict. Among these incidents, Russia blamed Ukraine for a car bomb that killed senior general Yaroslav Moskalik in April 2025.
Other notable attacks include the August 2022 killing of nationalist Darya Dugina, daughter of the hardline Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, who died when a bomb attached to her car exploded outside Moscow. In April 2023, pro-Kremlin military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, was killed by an explosive statuette handed to him at a café in Saint Petersburg.
Additionally, a bomb attached to a scooter outside a Moscow apartment building killed General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons division, and his assistant in December 2024. In May 2023, pro-Kremlin writer and nationalist Zakhar Prilepin was seriously injured in a car explosion near Nizhny Novgorod that also killed another person.
These attacks have underscored the ongoing security challenges faced by Russian authorities amid the broader geopolitical tensions stemming from the war in Ukraine. The investigation into Saturday’s bombing at the Balzi Rossi restaurant is ongoing, with officials working to determine the full circumstances and potential perpetrators behind the attack.