A high -ranking Russian military commander was killed in a suburb of Moscow on Friday, according to the investigators, the youngest in a series of deaths among the opponents of Ukraine in Russia.
The Russian investigation committee, the country’s equivalent, gave the FBI, a statement Identifying the officer Lt. General Yaroslaw Moskalik, a high -ranking personality of the Russian general staff who was directly involved in planning business. The investigators said they had opened a criminal investigation into the explosion, which took place in the city of Balashikha, a suburb of Moscow.
The explosion came when the Russian state news agencies reported that Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special representative, was probably in Moscow. It was expected that Mr. Witkoff should carry out another round of top -class negotiations with President Vladimir V. Putin about the end of the war in Ukraine and the restoration of the bilateral relationship between Russia and the United States. Mr. Putin has Throw Mr. Trump’s calls aside Seem to have increased for a quick peace in Ukraine and Russia’s air strikes for civilians.
On social media circulating videos circulating and verified by the New York Times showed a car that exploded in front of a block of apartment and catches fire and sent a thick cloud of smoke into the air. Other film material verified by the Times showed people who hurried to the scene when secondary explosions in the distance resisted.
The Ukrainian authorities had no immediate comment when he had contacted the killing.
In February, a prominent pro-Russian separatist number from Ukraine, Poor Sarkisyan was killed When a bomb exploded in a residential complex in Moscow. The Ukrainian officials did not comment on the explosion at that time.
At the end of December, Igor Kirillov, a general who was responsible for the Russian military’s nuclear and chemical weapons protection forces, was Igor Kirillov, Killed by a bomb Near the entry into a residential building in Moscow. An official of Ukraine Security Service, known as SBU, said that Ukraine was responsible for the murder.
Maria Varenikova And Sanjana Varghese Reported reports.
