MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian basic was killed by a automobile bomb on Friday, Russia’s high felony investigation company mentioned, within the second such assault on a high Russian army officer in 4 months.
The Investigative Committee mentioned that Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the principle operational division within the Common Workers of the Russian armed forces, was killed by an explosive system positioned in his automobile in Balashikha, simply outdoors Moscow.
The committee’s spokesperson, Svetlana Petrenko, mentioned that the explosive system was rigged with shrapnel. She mentioned that investigators had been on the scene.
Russian media ran movies of a car burning within the courtyard of an condominium constructing.
The committee didn’t point out doable suspects.
Russian International Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova described Moskalik’s killing as a “terror attack.”
The assault follows the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who died on Dec. 17 when a bomb hidden on an electrical scooter parked outdoors his condominium constructing exploded as he left for his workplace. The Russian authorities blamed Ukraine for the killing of Kirillov, and Ukraine’s safety company acknowledged that it was behind that assault.
Kirillov was the chief of Russia’s Radiation, Organic and Chemical Safety Forces, the particular troops tasked with defending the army from the enemy’s use of nuclear, chemical or organic weapons and making certain operations in a contaminated surroundings. Kirillov’s assistant additionally died within the assault.
Friday’s bombing got here simply as U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, was anticipated to fulfill with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to debate a U.S.-brokered peace plan for Ukraine. The assembly is their fourth encounter since February.
