 "Ukrainian police officers stand near a damaged building after a Russian ballistic missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo)")
In the second such attack on a top Russian military officer in four months, a car bomb killed a Russian general on Friday, Russia’s top criminal investigation agency said.
The Investigative Committee reported that Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, a high-ranking official in the Russian military’s General Staff, was killed when an explosive device detonated in his car in Balashikha, a suburb of Moscow.
According to committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko, the bomb was loaded with shrapnel to increase its lethality. Investigators are currently examining the blast site.
Russian news outlets circulated footage showing a vehicle engulfed in flames in an apartment complex parking lot.
The committee’s spokesperson, Svetlana Petrenko, said the explosive device was rigged with shrapnel. She said that investigators were at the scene.
Russian media ran videos of a vehicle burning in the courtyard of an apartment building.
The committee did not mention possible suspects.
The attack follows the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who died on Dec. 17 when a bomb hidden on an electric scooter parked outside his apartment building exploded as he left for his office. The Russian authorities blamed Ukraine for the killing of Kirillov, and Ukraine’s security agency acknowledged that it was behind that attack.