{"id":13254,"date":"2026-08-02T19:28:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/moscow-mayor-labels-restaurant-bombing-a-terrorist-act\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:28:34","slug":"moscow-mayor-labels-restaurant-bombing-a-terrorist-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/moscow-mayor-labels-restaurant-bombing-a-terrorist-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Mayor Labels Restaurant Bombing a Terrorist Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The mayor of Moscow has described a deadly bombing at an upscale restaurant in the Russian capital as a brutal terrorist act, though authorities have yet to identify those responsible for the attack that left three dead and more than 20 wounded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sergei Sobyanin<\/strong> issued a statement on Sunday following Saturday evening&#8217;s explosion at Balzi Rossi, an Italian restaurant located in central Moscow, according to <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. The blast killed three people, including the female bomber herself, Russian state media reported, citing local officials.<\/p>\n<p><em>Yesterday, a brutal terrorist act was committed in Moscow that claimed human lives,<\/em> Sobyanin wrote on social media, adding that victims were receiving care in city hospitals and that an investigation was underway.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13254 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26124723206092-300x200.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26124723206092-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26124723206092-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26124723206092.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13251'>\n\t\t\t\tPhoto: washingtonexaminer.com\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26114551858365_e362ca-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26114551858365_e362ca-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26114551858365_e362ca-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26114551858365_e362ca.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13252'>\n\t\t\t\tPhoto: washingtonexaminer.com\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Moscow mayor pledged that those responsible would face appropriate punishment, though no individual or group has publicly claimed responsibility for the attack as of Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>At least 21 people were wounded when the explosive device detonated at the restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee confirmed late Saturday, as reported by Russian state news agency Ria Novosti.<\/p>\n<p>According to the same outlet, a woman attempted to bring the bomb into the establishment but was stopped by a security guard who refused her entry. The device then exploded outside. The Moscow Investigative Committee said Saturday evening that the incident remained under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant had been closed for a private event at the time of the bombing, Ria Novosti noted. State media footage showed heavily armed law enforcement personnel, multiple ambulances, and emergency vehicles deployed at the scene.<\/p>\n<h2>Security Tightened Following Previous Attacks<\/h2>\n<p>Earlier this year, Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service announced enhanced security measures for senior military and government officials following a wave of assassination attempts in Russian cities that began after the Kremlin&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities have not yet publicly linked Saturday&#8217;s bombing to these earlier attacks or to the ongoing war in Ukraine, <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow previously accused Kyiv of orchestrating a car bombing in the capital last April that killed Lt. Gen. <strong>Yaroslav Moskalik<\/strong>, a deputy head of the main operational department in Russia&#8217;s General Staff. Ukraine did not publicly claim responsibility for that attack.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ukraine&#8217;s SBU security service did acknowledge organizing the December 2024 killing of Lt. Gen. <strong>Igor Kirillov<\/strong>, who headed the Russian military&#8217;s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces. Kirillov was killed by a bomb concealed in a scooter outside his Moscow apartment building, one day after Ukrainian security services filed criminal charges against him.<\/p>\n<h2>Pattern of High-Profile Attacks<\/h2>\n<p>Other notable victims of bombing attacks in Russia include <strong>Daria Dugina<\/strong>, daughter of influential nationalist thinker <strong>Aleksandr Dugin<\/strong>, and <strong>Vladlen Tatarsky<\/strong>, a prominent pro-Kremlin military blogger.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv denied any involvement in the Dugina assassination and did not respond to Russian accusations regarding Tatarsky&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday afternoon, Russian authorities had released no additional information about the Balzi Rossi bombing, and the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow&#8217;s mayor called a restaurant bombing that killed three people including the bomber and wounded over 20 a terrorist act, though no group has claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":13253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[10758,795,10786,214,10785,3915],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-13254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-balzi-rossi","tag-moscow","tag-restaurant-bombing","tag-russia","tag-sergei-sobyanin","tag-terrorist-attack","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13254"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=13254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}