On the evening of August 1, an explosion occurred in the center of Moscow causing at least five deaths and dozens of injuries of varying severity. According to Russian media, it was an attack carried out by a woman who around 8:10 PM detonated an improvised explosive device in the Italian restaurant Balzi Rossi. The venue, according to several independent media including Novaya Gazeta, was closed for a private party of a general attended by several military personnel. According to some Russian Telegram channels, also reported by Reuters, among those present at the event was the commander of the Russian Air Force Alexander Chaiko, who took office a month and a half ago. The attacker died in the explosion along with a guard who had stopped her and a third person about whom no details are available.
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Russian Embassy, with the attack Ukrainians want to «intimidate Italians»
In a statement, the Russian embassy in Italy accused Ukraine of being responsible for the attack in Moscow. Planning an attack in one of the best Italian restaurants in Moscow, it reads, «the Ukrainian terrorists» wanted to «intimidate Italians working in Russia, to imply that they too are targeted and could at any moment be the next victims of these scoundrels». «The bloody tentacles of Zelensky’s terrorist gang – the embassy continues – have reached the Italian restaurant Balzi Rossi in Moscow. Only thanks to the attention and professional dedication of a Russian security service agent, the Neapolitan chef Carmine Alfieri and his team members were not injured. Unfortunately, there are still victims: five people died and nineteen restaurant customers sustained serious injuries.» «Does anyone still doubt that the Kiev regime represents yet another emanation of Al-Qaeda and ISIS?», the note adds, stating that those who continue to «supply money and weapons» to Kiev’s leaders «are complicit regardless of their position». «It is now completely clear: the explosion at the Balzi Rossi restaurant and other attacks in Russia, Munich, and elsewhere – concludes the embassy – demonstrate how the disease of Ukrainian terrorism has reached Europe, and Italy in particular».
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Ukrainian drone falls near a reactor of the Zaporizhzhia plant
Meanwhile, the war on the ground between Russia and Ukraine continues. According to Alexei Likhachev, director of the Russian state atomic energy agency Rosatom, a Ukrainian drone crashed «a few meters» from one of the reactors of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in Ukrainian territory but controlled by the Russians. «Fortunately, there was no explosion» and therefore no damage to the plant. «Last night – Likhachev reports, cited by Tass – a drone hit the tunnel connecting the six units of the plant, used for personnel movement. The attack literally struck a few meters from the reactor building of unit 3».
Ukraine: one dead and 6 injured in drone raid in the Kiev region
Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory also continue. «Today in Sumy there was an attack with aerial bombs. In Brovary (in the Kiev region, ed.) due to a drone attack, one person died and six others were injured. My condolences to the families and loved ones.» Thus on X the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. «The attacks are constant on Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region, nighttime shootings also on Odessa, Zaporizhia, and the Dnipro region. This week over fifteen hundred buildings damaged, including hundreds of residential houses.»
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