Moscow has begun searching for bombs under cars after a car bombing in Balashikha

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 9 June 2026

A crowd of people gathered near a shopping mall, with visible signage and trees along the roadside.
The evacuated shopping center “Nebo”

Three incidents involving car bombs have already occurred in the Moscow region on June 9. According to ” Beware, Moscow,” on Tuesday at 6 p.m., the large Nebo shopping center in the Solntsevo district in the western part of the capital was evacuated due to the discovery of a “suspicious object” under the undercarriage of a parked car. According to the channel, security forces blocked the road near the complex.  Msk1 also confirmed this. “Aviatorov Street is blocked. People are being evacuated from the Nebo shopping center. There are numerous police cars near the shopping center,” one eyewitness reported. Police officers, firefighters, ambulances, and “military specialists” arrived at the scene.

Shortly before this, an explosion was reported in the Konkovo ​​district in the southwest of the capital. The accident involving  a Zeekr electric car occurred in a parking lot at the intersection of Butlerova and Vvedenskogo streets (near the Belyaevo metro station). Initially, Telegram channels reported that the explosion was followed by a fire under the hood, which was extinguished by witnesses. Later, the Investigative Committee announced the discovery of a “suspicious object under the car” and its controlled detonation. Earlier, early in the morning, another car exploded in the Aviatorov neighborhood of Balashikha, Moscow Region, killing, according to preliminary information, Damir Davydov, head of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) of the Ministry of Defense.

According to footage released from the scene, the explosion occurred as the driver entered the BMW X3 and began to pull out of the parking lot. The man was  pulled alive from the burning car, but he could not be saved. Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy reported that Davydov was the one killed in the explosion. The same information later appeared on the VChK-OGPU channel, the Agency noted. 

The Cheka-OGPU claims that Davydov purchased the exploded SUV in 2024 from a businessman in the Vladimir region, where he previously worked as the head of the Central Testing Technical Bureau at the 51st Arsenal of the GRAU. The Investigative Committee of Russia confirmed the “detonation of an explosive device” and opened a criminal case, but did not specify the statute under which it was prosecuted.

https://ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/06/09/v-moskve-nachali-iskat-bombi-pod-mashinami-posle-podriva-avtomobilya-v-balashihe-a197772

4 comments

  1. “Three incidents involving car bombs have already occurred in the Moscow region on June 9.”

    So, it seems that there were three car bombs today.

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