On Friday, an explosive aircraft has torn a car parked near Moscow, killing a Senior Russian general, the investigation committee, which probes the main crimes, adding that he had launched a murder investigation.
The authorities identified the victim as Lieutenant-Lieutenant Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the main operational direction of the army staff.
Investigators said they had opened an investigation into the murder and smuggling of explosives after the Volkswagen golf course exploded in front of a block of apartments in the city of Balashikha, east of Moscow.
Images of the scene published on social networks have shown a fire that emptied a car. The fatal attack comes four months after Another Russian general was killed With his assistant in an explosion in Moscow.
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The agent’s information site, citing disclosed information, said Moskalik lived in Balashikha, but the Volkswagen was not registered with him.
Images of security cameras published by the Izvestia newspaper have shown a massive explosion, sending flying fragments in the air. The explosion occurs as someone can be seen walking towards the car.
The “breath was caused by the triggering of an improvised explosive device” filled with metallic fragments designed to cause maximum damage, the investigators said.
According to the Kremlin website, Moskalik was a Russian military representative in the “format of Normandy” on Ukraine in 2015, in the middle of the conflict between kyiv and the separatists supported by Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin did it in 2021.
Friday’s bombardment came just when the President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff was to meet Putin in Moscow to discuss a peace plan forbidden in the United States for Ukraine.
The explosion seemed to be similar to previous attacks against the Russians linked to the Moscow military offensive in Ukraine.
Kyiv had in some cases a responsibility, but did not comment on Friday’s attack.
These include August 2022 Automobile bombardment of the nationalist Darya Dugina And an explosion in a cafe in Saint Petersburg in April 2023 which killed a high-level military correspondent MaximKnown as Vladlen Tatarsky. A Russian woman, who said that she had presented the figurine on the orders of contact in Ukraine, was found guilty and sentenced to 27 years in prison.
In December 2023, Illia Kiva, a former Ukrainian legislative pro-Moscow who fled to Russia, was shot dead Near Moscow. Ukrainian military intelligence praised the murder, warning that other “traitors of Ukraine” would share the same fate.
Igor Kirillov, the chief of the chemical unit of the Russian army, was killed by a planted bomb In a scooter in Moscow in December. Ukrainian security sources told CBS News that the Ukraine Security Service (SBU) had killed Kirillov in a special operation.
After the murder of Kirillov, Putin made a rare admission of failures by her powerful security agencies, saying: “We must not allow so serious blunders.”