On a Saturday evening in central Moscow, a bomb detonated at the entrance of an upscale restaurant, killing three people and wounding twenty-one more. The explosion — involving a woman who may or may not have known she carried the device — unfolded against the long shadow of Russia's war in Ukraine, where the line between targeted violence and unwitting victimhood has grown increasingly difficult to trace. As authorities sealed the scene and withheld names, motives, and conclusions, the city was left to sit with a familiar and unsettling silence: the kind that follows violence when those in po
Bomb at Moscow restaurant kills three, injures 21
Three people killed including the bomber, a security guard, and a restaurant customer; 21 others injured with varying severity.