This was reported to RIA Novosti by Yulia Ivanova, senior assistant to the head of the capital's head office of the Russian Investigative Committee.

“According to the investigation, on the evening of February 24, 2022, a suspect who participated in an unauthorized event in the center of Moscow, near Pushkinskaya Square, threw a Molotov cocktail at law enforcement officers,” the website of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the city of Moscow says.

On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Art.

318 of the Criminal Code (threat of violence against a representative of authority).

Earlier, the Moscow department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that 600 participants of an uncoordinated event were detained in the capital for violations of public order.

They were taken to the local police departments for investigation.