Homemade bomb kills three outside Moscow restaurant

On a Saturday evening in central Moscow, a woman carrying a homemade explosive device was stopped at the entrance of an upscale restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square — and in that brief moment of confrontation, the device detonated, killing three people and wounding more than twenty others. The dead included the suspected bomber herself, the security guard who intercepted her, and a patron caught in the blast. The attack arrives against a backdrop of recurring violence in Russia since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, adding another unresolved episode to a country already navigating the weight of prolo