There Was An Explosion Near Savelovsky Railway Station In Moscow
- 24.02.2026, 8:31
A police officer is dead.
An explosion occurred near a traffic police car parked on Savelovsky Railway Station Square in Moscow. A 34-year-old patrolman died, two of his colleagues were hospitalized with injuries. According to preliminary data, the attacker died on the spot, "Deutsche Welle" reported, citing Russian media.
An unknown man approached a traffic police car parked on Savelovsky Station Square in Moscow and set off an explosion on the night of Tuesday, February 24. According to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), a 34-year-old patrolman died as a result, while two of his colleagues were hospitalized with injuries. At first it was stated that the attacker fled, but according to the later published revised data, he died on the spot.
The explosion occurred at 00:05 (Minsk time). According to eyewitnesses, the attacker entered the shooting on his phone, points out Telegram channel "Beware of the news." Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev arrived at the scene, according to the state agency RIA Novosti.
The Russian Investigative Committee (ICR) opened a criminal case under articles on attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer (Article 317 of the Criminal Code) and illegal trafficking of explosive devices (part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). At the same time, a post in the Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, published a few minutes after the Interior Ministry's statement about the death of the attacker, indicates that the fact of the criminal's death has been established only "tentatively" so far.
Three attacks on police officers in Ukraine have occurred in the past two days
On the night of February 22, two explosions occurred outside a shopping center in Lviv, killing a 23-year-old female police officer and injuring 25 others, two of them in very serious condition, according to local authorities.
Law enforcement officials have opened a criminal case on the terrorist attack and detained the suspect, a 33-year-old resident of the town of Kostopol in the Rivne region. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that the Russian side was behind the terrorist attack, and the perpetrators were recruited through Telegram.
In the evening of February 23, explosions went off in Nikolaev and Dnipro. In the first city, seven policemen were injured in an explosion at an out-of-service gas station. What happened was qualified as a terrorist attack. In Dnipro, the explosion occurred in a police station, no one was injured.
The head of the National Police of Ukraine Ivan Vygovsky called what happened in Nikolaev a targeted attack on law enforcement officers and linked the explosion to the terrorist attack in Lviv. "This is not a coincidence. After the recent terrorist attack in Lviv, the enemy is trying to shake up the law enforcement system," Vygovskyy said.