A homemade explosive device explodes in a parked car, killing EUs throughout Jaroslav Moskarik of Jaroslav, authorities say.
A senior Russian general was killed after a homemade explosive device tore a parked car in the town of Balashika, east of Moscow, according to the committee of investigation.
Authorities named Lieutenant Colonel Jaroslav Moscarick, the chief operational director of the military’s general staff, as the victim of Friday’s attack.
“According to available data, the explosion occurred as a result of an explosion of a homemade explosive device filled with destructive elements,” the committee of investigators said in a statement Friday.
Investigators added that they opened an investigation into a deadly attack after a Volkswagen golf exploded outside a block at Barashika’s flat. The statement did not say who was behind the incident.
The second victim reported
The Russian Kommersant newspaper said the second one was also killed.
Images from scenes posted on social media showed flames that destroyed the car.
The AgentStvo investigative news site cited the leaked information and said that Moskalik lived in Balashikha, but Volkswagen was not registered with him.
Security camera footage posted by the Izvestia newspaper showed a massive explosion, sending fragments flying into the air. The explosion occurs so that someone can see them walking towards the car.
According to the Kremlin website, Moscarick was representative of the Russian military in a 2015 “Normandy Style” speech in Ukraine amidst the conflict between Kiev and Russia-backed separatists.
Russian President Vladimir Putin made him lieutenant general in 2021.
Previous deadly attacks on Russians related to the war in Ukraine include the car bombing of nationalist Darya Dogina in August 2022 and the explosion at St. Petersburg Café in April 2023, killing Maxim Fomin, a well-known military correspondent known as Vladren Tatarsky.
Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian military’s chemical weapons division, was killed in a bomb planted on a Moscow scooter in December.
After Kirilov’s murder, President Putin rarely admitted to his failures by powerful security agencies, saying, “We must not let such a very serious failure.”
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