Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin called on Sunday a in the capital the day before a 鈥渂rutal terrorist act,鈥� but did not say who was responsible.
The blast on Saturday evening at the Balzi Rossi, an upscale Italian establishment in central Moscow, killed three people, including the woman bomber, Russian state media said, citing local officials.
鈥淵esterday, a brutal terrorist act was committed in Moscow that claimed human lives. The victims are currently in the city鈥檚 hospitals, where they are receiving all necessary care,鈥� Sobyanin wrote on social media Sunday.
He added that a probe into the attack was underway. 鈥淭hose responsible for committing this crime will certainly be found and will face the punishment they deserve,鈥� he wrote.
At least 21 people were wounded when the explosive device detonated at the restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said late on Saturday, according to Russian state news agency Ria Novosti.
A woman attempted to smuggle the bomb into the establishment, but a security guard refused to let her in before the bomb exploded, reported Ria Novosti. The Moscow Investigative Committee said on Saturday evening the attack was still being investigated.
As of early afternoon on Sunday, there was no further information from Russian authorities, and no one had publicly claimed responsibility.
According to Ria Novosti, the restaurant was closed for a private function on Saturday evening.
Footage released by Russian state media showed heavily armed law-enforcement officers, several ambulances and other emergency vehicles at the site.
Earlier this year, Russia鈥檚 Federal Security Service announced that authorities would tighten security around senior military and government officials, after a series of assassination attempts in Russian cities that followed the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
So far, Russian authorities have not drawn any connections between Saturday’s blast and these earlier attacks or the war in Ukraine.
Russia previously said Kyiv was behind , a deputy head of the main operational department in Russia鈥檚 General Staff. Ukraine did not publicly claim responsibility.
But Ukraine’s SBU security service earlier said it had organized , who headed the Russian military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces.
Kirillov was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine鈥檚 security service leveled criminal charges against him.
Among other prominent victims of bombing attacks in Russia were , and
Kyiv denied involvement in the attack on Dugina, and did not respond to Russian accusations that it was behind Tatarsky鈥檚 death.
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