{"id":1423781,"date":"2026-08-01T22:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/an-explosion-occurred-in-an-elite-restaurant-in-the-center-of-moscow-there-are-dead-and-dozens-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:39:19","slug":"an-explosion-occurred-in-an-elite-restaurant-in-the-center-of-moscow-there-are-dead-and-dozens-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/an-explosion-occurred-in-an-elite-restaurant-in-the-center-of-moscow-there-are-dead-and-dozens-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"An explosion occurred in an elite restaurant in the center of Moscow: there are dead and dozens injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the evening of August 1, an explosion occurred at the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square in central Moscow. According to preliminary reports, at least 3 people were killed, and information about the number of injured varies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by Russian media.<\/p>\n<p> According to Russian journalists, the explosion occurred at the Balzi Rossi restaurant, followed by a fire. Fire and rescue units, police and ambulance crews arrived at the scene, and the area around Kudrinskaya Square was cordoned off.<\/p>\n<p> Different sources provide different data on the consequences of the incident. In particular, at least 3 people are reported dead, while the number of injured, according to various sources, ranges from 15 to 21 people. It is also reported that some of the injured are in serious condition. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?24\" data-telegram-post=\"ssternenko\/61701\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> According to Russian media, the restaurant was closed to the public at the time of the explosion due to a private event. Eyewitnesses put forward different versions of the causes of the incident, including an explosive device or a gas explosion in the kitchen. There is no official information about the cause of the explosion at the time of publication. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?24\" data-telegram-post=\"Tsaplienko\/96670\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> Journalists also report that the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Alexander Chaiko, may have been celebrating his birthday at the restaurant. There is currently no official confirmation of this information.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of August 1, an explosion occurred at the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square in central Moscow. According to preliminary reports, at least 3 people were killed, and information about the number of injured varies. This is reported by Russian media. According to Russian journalists, the explosion occurred at the Balzi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1423773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1423781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}