It said the bomb killed three people, including a woman who carried the explosive device into the restaurant, a guard who stopped her and a guest inside. Several Russian media outlets claimed the bombing targeted a Russian general who was celebrating his birthday at the restaurant. In February, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, ​the deputy head of the GRU ‌military ⁠intelligence service, was shot three times at a Moscow apartment building, but survived. In December, a car bomb killed Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff, in southern Moscow. In April 2025, another car bomb that Russia blamed on Ukraine killed Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in Russia's General Staff.