A Russian basic has been killed by a automotive bomb close to Moscow, the nation’s high felony investigation company says.
The dying of Lieutenant Common Yaroslav Moskalik is the second such deadly assault on a high Russian army officer in 4 months.
The investigative committee stated he was killed by an explosive system positioned in his automotive in Balashikha, simply exterior the capital.
Yaroslav Moskalik. Pic: Russian Ministry of Defence
He was a deputy head of the primary operational division within the Common Workers of the Russian armed forces.
Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko stated the explosive system was rigged with shrapnel, including that investigators have been on the scene.
Movies revealed by Russian media retailers confirmed a automobile burning within the courtyard of an condo constructing.
The committee didn’t point out potential suspects.
It comes after Lieutenant Common Igor Kirillov was killed in December when a bomb hidden on an electrical scooter parked exterior his condo 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 guaranteeing operations in a contaminated surroundings.
Flames and smoke rise from the scene on Friday. Pic: Ostorozhno Novostivia/AP
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His assistant additionally died within the assault.
Friday’s bombing got here as US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff was anticipated to satisfy Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to debate a US-brokered peace plan for Ukraine.
The assembly is their fourth encounter since February.
