An explosive device crossed a parked car near Moscow on Friday, April 22, killing a superior Russian general, said the investigation committee, who investigates the main crimes, added that he had launched a murder investigation. The authorities appointed Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy director of the main operational direction of the Military General, as a victim.
The researchers said they had opened an investigation into the murder and smuggling explosives after the Volkswagen golf exploded out of a block of floors in the city of Balashikha, east of Moscow. The images of the scene published on social networks showed a fire that destroyed a car. Agentstvo’s research news site, citing leaked information, said Moscalik lived in Balashikha, but the Volkswagen was not registered for him.
Images of the Security Chamber published by the Izvestia The newspaper showed a massive explosion, sending fragments flying in the air. The explosion occurs just when you can see someone walking towards the car. The “explosion was caused by the activation of an improvised explosive device” full of metal fragments designed to cause maximum damage, the researchers said.
According to the Kremlin website, Moscalik was a Russian military representative in the “Normandy” conversations about Ukraine in 2015, amid the conflict between the separatists backed by kyiv and the Russians. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, turned him into Lieutenant General in 2021.
The explosion seemed to be similar to the previous attacks against Russians linked to Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine. Kyiv had assumed responsibility, but has not commented on Friday’s attack in some cases. These include August 2022 of the nationalist Darya Dugina and an explosion in a Café in St. Petersburg in April 2023 that killed the high -profile military correspondent Maxim Foy, known as Vladlen Tatarsky.
Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian Army Chemical Weapons Unit, was killed by a pump planted in a scooter in Moscow in December, the boldest murder claimed by kyiv since the beginning of the conflict. After the murder of Kirillov, Putin made a rare admission of failures by his powerful security agencies, saying: “We must not allow such serious mistakes to occur.”
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