At least three have been killed and 21 injured after a homemade bomb exploded near a restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, state media reported.
The explosion took place around 8pm local time (5pm GMT) on Kudrinksaya Square in the city centre.
An unidentified woman carrying an “improvised explosive device” attempted to enter the Italian restaurant Balzi Rossi but was stopped by a security guard, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee has said.
The restaurant, located in one of Moscow’s renowned Stalin-era skyscrapers, had been closed for a private event.
Law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel work at the site of an explosion at a restaurant in central Moscow. REUTERS/Anastasia BarashkovaWho was injured?
State media reported that the three killed in the attack were the woman, the security guard and a customer.
The Telegram monitoring channel ASTRA, citing witnesses, earlier said that a birthday celebration for a general was taking place near where the explosion occurred last night. This has not been confirmed by the Kremlin.
Police said that those who were injured received wounds of varying severity.
Russia’s Kommersant daily newspaper cited its own sources as saying the explosion was intended to target guests on the summer terrace outside the restaurant.
Russian police closed the area off from the public following the explosion (Photo: Sergei Vedyashkin/Moscow News Agency via AP)It suggested the bomb had been set off remotely by someone else, and that the woman carrying the package may not have known it was an explosive device.
Videos from Russia’s RIA news agency showed heavily armed law enforcement officers at the scene, which was closed off to the public.
Could Ukraine be involved?
Authorities have not named those killed or injured, and have not suggested who might have been responsible.
However, many in Moscow will suspect a connection with the war in Ukraine.
Although the Kremlin has not stated if Ukraine was behind the attack, Moscow has blamed Kyiv for previous attacks.
Last December, senior Russian general Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov, was killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow, which Russian investigators said may have been carried out by Ukrainian special forces.
Earlier this year, Russia’s Federal Security Service said authorities would increase protection for high-ranking military officials.
Kyiv ramping up attacks
This comes after Kyiv has ramped up its attacks inside Russia, as Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky said: “We are, quite justly, bringing the war back home – to Russia.”
In recent weeks, Ukraine found a new pressure point as it attacked five warehouses of the country’s largest online retailer, Wildberries, described as “Russia’s Amazon”.
The strikes killed at least nine people and reportedly destroyed millions of pounds worth of stock along with 8 per cent of the company’s storage sites.
Smoke could be seen billowing into the sky after Ukrainian attacks on Russain retailer Wildberries (Photo: AP)This weekend, Ukraine again launched major strikes on key Russian infrastructure. Drone attacks destroyed three major oil refineries and sunk a Russian shadow fleet tanker.
In a post on social media, Zelensky said the refineries “process millions of tons of oil each year,” adding that the tanker ship was one of the “facilities that sustain the war effort”.
This came after it was confirmed on Saturday that Russia had hit Ukraine with ballistic missiles and drones, killing nine people and injuring 33 others in Kyiv. This followed another major attack this week, which killed 10 people.
As strikes continue to escalate, there are also growing fears that the two major ongoing conflicts, one launched by Vladimir Putin against Ukraine and the other by Donald Trump against Iran, could fuse after Iran claimed that Ukraine struck a commercial cargo ship, killing a sailor.
Ukraine said its drones hit a Russian missile boat, oil platform and two sanctioned military cargo vessels in the Caspian Sea, a key strategic lake used by Russia and Iran to smuggle arms.
Iran said the attack intended to bring Europe into the Middle East War, and was considering retaliating by striking a Ukrainian port with a ballistic missile, although it later backed down from this threat.
Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha called Iran’s claims “lies” and branded the regime a “direct accomplice to Russian aggression against Ukraine”.
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