Russian general killed in car bomb blast as Trump envoy meets with Putin
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Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for the military, said the explosive device was rigged with shrapnel and an investigation is underway.
A car bomb killed a Russian general on Friday, the country’s top criminal investigation agency says, making it the second killing of a high-powered Russian official in four months.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a senior Russian official with the main operational department in the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, was killed by an explosive device planted in his car in Balashikha, just outside Moscow.
Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for the military, said the explosive device was rigged with shrapnel and that investigators had arrived at the scene.
Russian media ran videos of a vehicle burning in the courtyard of an apartment building.
The committee did not mention possible suspects, according to The Associated Press.
The attack follows the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who died on Dec. 17, 2024, when a bomb hidden on an electric scooter parked outside his apartment building exploded as he left for his office. Kirillov’s assistant was also killed in the explosion.
The Russian authorities blamed Ukraine for the killing of Kirillov, and Ukraine’s security agency acknowledged that it was behind that attack.
Kirillov was the chief of Russia’s Radiation, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces, the special troops charged with protecting the military from nuclear, chemical or biological attacks.
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