A homemade explosive device explodes in a parked car, killing Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moscoemik, authorities say.
A Senior Russian general has been killed after a homemade explosive device through a car parked in the city of Balashikha, east of Moscow, according to the Investigation Committee, whose main crimes in the country.
The authorities appointed Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy director of the main operational direction of the Military General Staff, as a victim of Friday’s attack, which seemed to be similar to military attacks against the Russians.
“According to the available data, the explosion occurred as a result of the detonation of a homemade explosive device full of destructive elements,” said the investigation committee in a statement on Friday.
The researchers added that they had opened a probe on the deadly attack after a Volkswagen golf exploded out of a block of floors in Balashikha. The statement did not say who could be behind the incident.
The second victim reported
Russia’s Kommersant newspaper said a second person was also killed.
The images of the scene published on social networks showed a fire that destroyed a car.
Agentstvo’s research news site, citing leaked information, said Moscalik lived in Balashikha, but the Volkswagen was not registered for him.
The images of the security camera published by the Izvestia newspaper showed a mass explosion, sending fragments flying to the air. The explosion occurs just when you can see someone walking towards the car.
According to the Kremlin website, Moscalik was a Russian military representative in the “Normandy” conversations about Ukraine in 2015, amid the conflict between the separatists backed by kyiv and the Russians.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, turned him into Lieutenant General in 2021.
The previous mortal attacks against Russians linked to war in Ukraine include the bombing of August 2022 of the nationalist Darya Dugina, and an explosion in a coffee in St. Petersburg in April 2023 that killed the high -profile military correspondent Maxim F, known, known, maxim fing, maxim f,
Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian Army Chemical Weapons Unit, was killed by a pump planted in a scooter in Moscow in December, the boldest murder claimed by kyiv since the beginning of the conflict.
After the murder of Kirillov, Putin made a rare admission of failures by his powerful security agencies, saying: “We must not allow such serious mistakes to occur.”