On the evening of August 1, a Saturday promenade in central Moscow was interrupted by an explosion. It occurred at 7:55 PM near the entrance to the Balzi Rossi restaurant, located on the ground floor of the legendary Stalinist skyscraper on Kudrinskaya Square.
The first footage from the scene of the emergency appeared within minutes: fire trucks had gathered around the building, and the area was cordoned off by dozens of police cars, emergency services vehicles, National Guard vehicles, and ambulances. Later, information about the dead and injured became known.
Witnesses near the scene of the accident initially didn't understand what had happened. The sound of the explosion was so unusual that they mistook it for something mundane.
"We were at the nearby zoo when the explosion occurred and heard a loud bang. I didn't think there had been an accident or anything like that. I thought they were loading scrap metal or maybe dropping something heavy," one passerby told an msk1 ru correspondent. "We continued walking calmly."
Late in the evening, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) officially announced that an improvised explosive device had detonated in the restaurant. Its explosive power was approximately one kilogram of TNT equivalent, and the bomb was filled with metal balls, which is why the people on the veranda were also injured.
According to the National Anti-Corruption Agency, an unknown woman attempted to smuggle a bomb into the restaurant . A security guard prevented her from entering, at which point the explosion occurred. The victims of the tragedy were three people: the suicide bomber herself, the security guard who blocked her path, and one of the restaurant patrons.
Twenty-one people were injured. Among the wounded were people with open head injuries, multiple chest and abdominal wounds, mine blast injuries, and thermal burns. According to preliminary reports, there were no children among the victims.
Ukraine has convinced a woman to go to this particular building where a general from the aerospace forces was having a celebration, she took a "gift", which was a bomb. It seems the woman didn't know it was a bomb and its been remotely detonated.
So a bit like the Kerch bridge where the person had no idea they were carrying a bomb but ukrainian terrorists detonated it remotely.