Blast outside Moscow restaurant kills 3, injures 21; Russia investigates terror attack

On a Saturday evening in central Moscow, an explosion outside a restaurant at Kudrinskaya Square claimed at least three lives and wounded more than twenty others, as a woman carrying a concealed device was stopped at the door before it detonated. Russian authorities have named it a terrorist attack, though the identity of the perpetrator, the intended target, and the hand behind the act remain unresolved. The incident arrives against a backdrop of escalating violence in the Russian capital — a city increasingly shadowed by the war it wages beyond its borders.