Undefined Explosive Device (UED) event in Moscow, Rostec Technopark area, Russian Federation on Tue 9th June 2026

A car that exploded in Moscow’s Konkovo district on June 9 belonged to an employee of a scientific and industrial enterprise, the Russian Investigative Committee said.

Two teenagers have been detained on suspicion of involvement in the blast. Investigators determined that a girl acting on instructions from handlers retrieved the explosive device from a cache and passed it to a second teenager, who attached both the device and a GPS tracker to the car.

Criminal charges have been filed on suspicion of attempted murder and the illegal manufacture and storage of explosives. Both suspects have been formally charged, the Investigative Committee said.

The car was parked at the intersection of Vvedensky and Butlerov streets when it exploded on June 9. No one was in the vehicle at the time and there were no casualties. The Investigative Committee said the same day that the detonation had been controlled — during an inspection, a suspicious object was found under the vehicle and “neutralized by detonation.”

The independent Russian investigative outlet Agentstvo reported that the car belonged to an employee of the M.F. Stelmakh Polyus Research Institute Technopark, which is near the explosion site. The technopark is a Rostec subsidiary.