On Friday, an explosive device broke through a parked car near Moscow, killed by a senior Russian general, the Investigative Committee, which examines major crimes, adding that he started checking the murder.
Authorities have identified the victim as Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, Deputy Chief Operational Director of the General Staff of the military.
Investigators said they opened a probe on the murder and smuggling of explosives after golf Volkswagen was blown up near the Balashich block block, east of Moscow.
Images from the stage posted on social media showed an explosion that pulled the car. Deadly attack occurs four months after Another Russian general was killed Together with his deputy in the blast in Moscow.
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The news agency news site, citing information leakage, said the Muscovite lived in Balashich, but Volkswagen was not registered to him.
The footage of the security camera, located by Izvestia, showed a massive explosion, sending fragments flying into the air. The explosion happens the way someone is visible to the car.
“The explosion was caused by the launch of an improvised explosive device” filled with metal fragments designed to maximize the damage, investigators said.
According to the Kremlin's website, the Muscovite was a Russian military representative at the Normandy format about Ukraine in 2015 amid a conflict between Kiev and Russian separatists.
Russian President Vladimir Putin made him a lieutenant general in 2021.
Friday exploded, as did US President Donald Trump's messenger Steve Witcoof It is expected to meet with Putin in Moscow to discuss the US peace plan for Ukraine.
The explosion looked like previous attacks on Moscow's military offensive Ukraine.
In some cases, Kyiv claimed responsibility, but did not comment on the attack on Friday.
These include August 2022 Automobile bombing of nationalist Daria Dugin and an explosion at the St. Petersburg cafe in April 2023, which killed a loud military correspondent Maxim FominKnown as Vladlen Tatar. A Russian woman who said she presented a statuette on contact in Ukraine, has been convicted and sentenced to 27 years in prison.
In December 2023, Elijah Kiva, a former pro-Ukrainian legislator who fled to Russia, was shot and killed Near Moscow. The Ukrainian military intelligence excited the murder, warning that other “traitors of Ukraine” will share the same fate.
Igor Kirilov, head of the chemical weapons department of the Russian military, was killed by a bomb planted in a scooter in Moscow in December. Ukrainian security sources have informed CBS News that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) had killed Cyril in the special service.
After Kirilov's murder, Putin made a rare recognition of failures with his powerful security bodies, saying: “We should not make such very serious mistakes.”