According to Russia’s top criminal investigative agency, a Russian general was killed on Friday in a car bombing outside Moscow.
The discovery committee said that Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the Chief Operations Department, was killed by an explosive equipment placed in his car in Balshakha.
The explosive equipment was rigged with shrapnel, Svetlana Petranko, a spokesman of the investigative committee, said. The criminal of the blast is not clear.
The attack comes in the form of a White House envoy Steve Witcoff, who arrived in Moscow on Friday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Trump administration is trying to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian officer takes credit after Russian General Igor Kirilov, who was killed by explosive equipment in Moscow
On Friday, 24 April, a Volkswagen Golf exploded in Balshakha, killing Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik. (East2West)
Images taken in the bombing scene showed a burnt Voxwagen golf car outside an apartment building in Balshakha.
The attack occurred even after the assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov, who died in Moscow on December 17 when a bomb hidden on an electric scooter was standing outside his apartment building, as he left for his office.
Russian authorities convicted Ukraine for Kirilov’s assassination, and Ukraine’s security agency admitted that it was behind the attack.
Car bombing came out outside Moscow on Friday, 24 April. (East2West)
Ukrainian security services bombed Kirilov a day after accusing him of crimes. According to explosive Russian state news agency Tass, about 300 grams of TNT had power in that incident.
Police and investigators work at the scene where Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operations department among the general employees of the Russian Armed Forces, was killed by an explosive equipment placed in their car in Moscow, Russia on 25 April. (AP)
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Kirilov was accused of using banned chemical weapons on the battleground by Ukraine. Many countries also placed him under sanctions for his role in war against Ukraine, AP.
Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Protecate, Anders Hagstrom, Greg Vehner and Associated Press contributed to the report.
