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MOSCOW: A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed at least three people and injured 21 near an upscale restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, authorities said, amid unconfirmed speculation on social media that the attack may have been linked to the war in Ukraine. The explosion occurred just before 8pm close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinskaya Square, the police said. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK) said an unidentified woman carrying an improvised explosive device had tried to get into the restaurant but had been stopped by a security guard. NAK said the woman, the guard and a customer at the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant had been killed instantly in the blast that followed. REN TV cited a source on Sunday as saying that two people who had been taken to hospital had later died of their wounds, bringing the death toll to five, though there was no official confirmation. The channel said six people remained in a serious con...

Russia has added Moscow, the Moscow Region and parts of Kursk Region to its cryptocurrency mining ban list, citing power supply concerns behind the restrictions. Russia has expanded its cryptocurrency mining restrictions to Moscow, with the ban set to take effect on Aug. 15, 2026, and remain in place through Dec. 31, 2032. Russia’s Resolution No. 936, signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on July 25, 2026, amends an earlier mining restriction order issued in December 2024, according to records published on Pravo.ru. The updated rules add Moscow, the Moscow Region and several territories in Russia’s Kursk Region to the list of restricted areas. The measure expands existing restrictions on cryptocurrency mining in areas facing electricity supply concerns. The ban also covers eight municipal districts and the city of Lgov in Kursk Region. Read more

A Russian Kh-101 cruise missile, manufactured in the second quarter of 2026 in the Moscow region, crashed yesterday in the Lublin Voivodeship of Poland.

On the morning of July 28, Russian authorities reported a large-scale drone attack on Moscow, prompting temporary restrictions at several of the city's airports.

Following a series of drone incursions into its airspace, including Shahed drones, Romania has decided to recall its ambassador to Moscow for consultations and expel a Russian diplomat from Bucharest.

A nighttime drone attack in Russia's Moscow region sparked fires at an oil depot in Noginsk and at a Wildberries logistics center in Elektrostal.

President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the destruction of two major Russian logistics facilities—in the Moscow and Tambov regions, located more than 500 and about 700 kilometers from the front line, respectively.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Moscow continues to rely on ballistic missile terror, launching another large-scale overnight attack that included 13 missiles, eight of them ballistic, and 151 drones.

Following another series of Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said that Moscow is using diplomacy as a cover while continuing to kill Ukrainians.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, responding to a question from U.S. President Donald Trump about whether he would travel to Moscow for talks, joked that there were too many Ukrainian drones there.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the chances of ending the war will increase when Moscow and St. Petersburg are targeted by a thousand drones rather than a hundred, because Russia's political elite will begin to feel the impact of the war.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has confirmed a strike on the Russian Armed Forces' space communications center located in the area of Belooomut in the Moscow region.

The 1st Separate Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) demonstrated how it “broke through” a corridor for Ukrainian drones in Moscow’s air defense system.

For the second time this month, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) struck the “Vtorovo” oil pumping station, which supplies fuel to Moscow.

Two NATO countries on the Alliance's eastern flank have warned that Russia may stage provocations in the Baltic states or Poland if it perceives the war front moving closer to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

While El Al did not provide a specific reason for suspending its flights to the Russian capital, there has been a significant increase in drone attacks on Moscow, carried out by Ukraine, in recent weeks

Ukrainian intelligence has obtained internal Russian documents indicating that Russia is redeploying air defense systems from various regions to Moscow and the Kerch Bridge, weakening protection in other areas of Russia and in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories.

The Ukrainian attack on targets in the Moscow region on Thursday was another example of how Ukraine's strategy of overloading Russian air defense systems with drones has proven successful.

The second drone attack in a week on the Moscow oil refinery owned by Gazprom Neft has damaged a second major crude processing unit and triggered multiple fires at the facility.

Ukraine on Thursday launched its largest drone attack on Moscow in years, sparking fires, hitting a major oil refinery and forcing evacuations at the country’s largest airport. Russia vowed to retaliate for the attack as AFP reporters saw dramatic scenes of black smoke billowing over the capital’s southern skyline and drops of black rain mixed with soot falling from the sky. At least 17 people were wounded in the strikes, which also set a shopping centre and apartment building ablaze, authorities said. The attack came as Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Southeast Asian leaders at a summit in the central city of Kazan, about 700 kilometres east of Moscow. @dawn.today Scores of Ukrainian drones bore down on Moscow on Thursday (June 18), hitting the Russian capital's oil refinery for the second time this week in what Kyiv cast as a demonstration of its growing capabilities that should force Russia to accept a peace deal. A video posted on social media showed a moment of explosion at the refinery in the de...