A senior Russian officer was killed when a car exploded in the town of Balashika east of Moscow, the Russian Commission of Inquiry said.
It appointed the official as Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy director of the main operation bureau of the chief of staff of the Russian Armed Forces, and said criminal cases had been opened to the incident.
“Based on available data, the explosion occurred in homemade explosive devices, full of destructive elements,” the inquiry committee said in a statement.
The statement did not state who might be behind the incident. Since the beginning of the Ukrainian War in 2022, several senior Russian military figures have been assassinated.
The bombing was in the midst of an effort to push the war, and now in its fourth year, the Trump administration's U.S. envoy was in Moscow's Moscow, and he was expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.
A source from Russian law enforcement agencies in the Russian media market, he said that when officers living in the local area (local life) passed by, a remotely parked car bomb was detonated.
The Izvestia newspaper released video footage showing a person approaching a series of parked cars outside the apartment building and exploding part of the vehicle's flight meter.
The Kommersant newspaper said a second person was also killed.
The second soldier killed within five months
According to announcements from the Ministry of Defense and media reports, Major General Moskalik participated in several high-level Russian delegations.
He joined the Russian contingent at the Normandy format meeting in October 2015, composed of teams from Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France, overseeing the Minsk Agreement aimed at ending the war between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatist forces, which broke out in 2014.
According to the Kremlin website, Moskalik negotiated with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Kremlin assistant Yuri Ushakov, on behalf of the Army's General Staff.
Russia's RBC newspaper listed Moskalik as a participant in the security subgroup in the Minsk negotiations.
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Last December, Ukraine's SBU intelligence service killed the lieutenant using a bomb hidden in an electric scooter. Kyiv accused Igor Kirillov of using chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops.
The SBU did not immediately respond to a request for comment for the reported death of Moskalik.
