Details: He was the target of the Moscow bombing
This weekend, an explosive device exploded at a luxury restaurant in Moscow. Now more and more information is coming out about who was the target of the deadly attack.
At 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, a bomb exploded at the Italian luxury restaurant Balzi Rossi in Moscow. The target of the attack was General Aleksandr Chayko, commander of the Russian Air and Space Forces, writes the newspaper The Kyiv Independent, citing a source with insight.
According to the source, the explosion is the third recent attack on Russians with links to military production and the Russian military.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian commander was targeted in Kharkiv as recently as last week, according to Zelensky.
Accused of war crimes
“We will definitely respond to this attempted attack on Ukraine,” Zelensky wrote on X at the time.
At the beginning of the war, Chaiko was the commander of the Eastern Military District, which Ukraine accuses of war crimes in Butja outside Kiev. He was appointed to his current post as recently as May of this year.
Chaiko’s health is unclear. Ukrainian authorities have not commented on the explosion.
According to official Russian information, a woman tried to enter the pub to deliver a package, which she said contained a gift. The bomb was detonated when the woman was searched by a security guard, according to the state-controlled newspaper Kommersant.
The woman, the guard and at least one other guest were reportedly killed.
The restaurant was closed on Saturday night for a private banquet and, according to media reports, a birthday party was in progress for General Chayko, who turned 55 a few days earlier.
Daughter reportedly injured
A video believed to have been recorded in the premises shows a sign reading “Aleksandr 55”.
One of those injured was Chayko’s 25-year-old daughter, a source close to the restaurant management told the exiled Russian news site Vjorstka.
The daughter’s husband may also have been injured, according to Vjorstka, who reviewed unofficial casualty lists published in pro-Kremlin media.
Russian officials have not confirmed who was the target of the explosion, but describe the incident as a terrorist attack.
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