{"id":23990,"date":"2026-08-03T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/23990\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:28:07","slug":"russian-embassy-in-rome-blames-ukraine-for-deadly-italian-restaurant-bombing-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/23990\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Embassy in Rome blames Ukraine for deadly Italian restaurant bombing in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 The Russian Embassy in Rome on Monday blamed Ukraine for a deadly weekend bombing at a Moscow restaurant,<\/a> describing it as an attempt to intimidate the Italian community in Russia.<\/p>\n

The embassy said \u201cKyiv terrorists\u201d wanted to \u201cscare the Italians working in Russia and to show them that they too are in the crosshairs and could become the scoundrels\u2019 next victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

It said the Saturday night attack on the Balzi Rossi restaurant killed five and injured 19, adding that its Italian chef and his staff were unhurt only thanks to a Russian security guard\u2019s \u201cvigilance and selfless dedication to his professional duty.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian authorities.<\/p>\n

The National Anti-Terrorism Committee, which coordinates various security agencies, initially reported a lower death toll in a statement issued shortly after the attack. It said the bomb killed three people, including a woman who carried the explosive device into the restaurant, a guard who stopped her, and a guest inside. It said 21 others were injured when the bomb detonated near the restaurant\u2019s entrance.<\/p>\n

The committee didn\u2019t say who was the target or name the mastermind. <\/p>\n

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Sunday described the bombing as a \u201cbrutal terrorist act,\u201d but did not say who was responsible for the blast at the upscale restaurant, which is located on the ground floor of a high-rise apartment building that is one of seven skyscrapers in the city that date to the era of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.<\/p>\n

The Russian Foreign Ministry did not respond to a request for comment on the embassy\u2019s statement or explain the higher death toll. The ministry did not issue its own statement on the incident.<\/p>\n

Several Russian media outlets claimed the bombing targeted a Russian general who was celebrating his birthday at the restaurant. Some claimed that the general was Col.-Gen. Alexander Chaiko, who recently was appointed the chief of Russia\u2019s aerospace forces. The claims could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n

Russia blamed Ukraine for past attacks on military officials<\/p>\n

Russian authorities have blamed Kyiv for a series of bombings and other attacks against senior military officials after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. Earlier this year, Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service said authorities would tighten security around senior military and government officials following the attacks.<\/p>\n

In February, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alexeyev, the deputy head of the GRU \u200cmilitary \u2060intelligence service, was shot three times at a Moscow apartment building<\/a>, but survived. Ukraine denied its involvement.<\/p>\n

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In December, a car bomb killed<\/a> Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces\u2019 General Staff, in southern Moscow. Ukraine refrained from comment.<\/p>\n

In April 2025, another car bomb that Moscow blamed on Kyiv killed Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik<\/a>, a deputy head of the main operational department in Russia\u2019s General Staff. Ukraine didn\u2019t claim the attack but hinted at its involvement.<\/p>\n

And in December 2024, a bomb hidden in a scooter killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov<\/a>, who headed the Russian military\u2019s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, one of the few attacks Ukraine openly acknowledged.<\/p>\n

Among other prominent victims of bombing attacks in Russia were Daria Dugina, the daughter of influential nationalist thinker Aleksandr Dugin<\/a>, and Vladlen Tatarsky, a well-known pro-Kremlin military blogger.<\/a> Kyiv denied involvement in the attack on Dugina, and remained coy about the attack on Tatarsky. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 The Russian Embassy in Rome on Monday blamed Ukraine for a deadly weekend bombing at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8703,8707,8702,154,8704,8709,158,160,38,8701,25,157,6,3307,8700,26,164,8706,8705,81,8708],"class_list":["post-23990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aleksandr-dugin","tag-alexander-chaiko","tag-daria-dugina","tag-general-news","tag-igor-kirillov","tag-josef-stalin","tag-kyiv","tag-military-and-defense","tag-moscow","tag-rome","tag-russia","tag-russia-government","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-sergei-sobyanin","tag-terrorism","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-government","tag-vladimir-alexeyev","tag-vladlen-tatarsky","tag-world-news","tag-yaroslav-moskalik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}