A senior Russian general has been killed in an attack on a bomb in Moscow, employees confirmed.
The Russian Investigative Committee (SK), the main federal investigative body in the country – confirmed Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik died when a Volkswagen golf car exploded after an improvised pellet -filled explosive device.
Local media reported that the car was parked next to the general's house in the eastern suburb of Balashiha and exploded as it passed it.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova described the murder as a “terrorist attack” without providing further details, according to the Russian telegram channel, the troops.
Moskalik represents Russia General Staff in negotiations with Ukraine in Paris in 2015, which led to Minsk Agreements Created to end the war between Ukraine and the Separatist forces supported by Russia, which began in 2014.
According to the Kremlin website, he joined the Russian contingent, led by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Kremlin Assistant and former Russian Ambassador Yuri Ushakov, for these negotiations to end the fire.
Videos and photos circulated on Telegram on Friday show a car in flames outside a block of apartments. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the car bomb.
The incident comes when US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Vikof is expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to talk in Central Moscow later on Friday.
Lavrov had previously stated that Moscow was “ready to achieve a deal” with the United States to end the war in Ukraine, although some elements had to be “finely tuned”.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, suggested that his country may have to distribute territory as part of any peace transaction.
Drones' attacks against Ukraine continued on Friday night.
The Ukraine Air Force said Russia had fired 103 drones, with three people killed, including a child and a 76-year-old woman, in the city of Pavlokhrad, in the eastern region of Denpropetrovsk.
The northeastern city of Harkyiv in Ukraine was also attacking its mayor Ihor Terekhov, saying that several private buildings had been damaged.
The explosion of cars on Friday is not the first time the Russian military figures have been attacked since the beginning of the war, but the targeted killings in Moscow are rare.
In February this year, Armen Sargsian, the leader of a pro -Russian paramilitary group in Eastern Ukraine, died in hospital after An explosion in the hall of a residential building in northwestern MoscowS No one has taken responsibility for this attack.
Last year, a high -ranking general in the Russian armed forces, Lieutenant Gen Igor Kirilov and his assistant were Killed in Moscow by Ukraine SBU Security ServiceS
Kirilov, head of radiation, biological and chemical defense forces, was outside the apartment block when a device hidden in a scooter was blown remotely, SK said.
At that time, a SBU source told the BBC that Kirilov was a “legal goal” and claimed to have committed war crimes.