Senior Russian Officer Killed in Car Explosion Near Moscow
The general’s death is the latest in a series of fatalities involving Ukraine’s opponents inside Russia. The authorities in Kyiv had no immediate comment.
The general’s death is the latest in a series of fatalities involving Ukraine’s opponents inside Russia. The authorities in Kyiv had no immediate comment.
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“A senior Russian military commander was killed on Friday in a car explosion in a Moscow suburb, investigators said, the latest in a series of apparent assassinations targeting Ukraine’s opponents inside Russia that have come as cease-fire talks show few signs of progress.
The Investigative Committee of Russia, the country’s equivalent to the F.B.I., issued a statement
identifying the officer as Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a senior figure in the Russian military. The investigators said that they had opened a criminal inquiry into the explosion, which took place in the town of Balashikha, east of Moscow.
The explosion came the same day that Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Kremlin for another round of high-profile negotiations over ending the war in Ukraine and re-establishing the bilateral relationship between Russia and the United States. …”