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The bomb car exploded in the city of Balashikha, east of Moscow, killing Yaroslav Moskalik
A high Russian military official was killed this Friday in the explosion of a car in a suburb of Moscow, in a case that authorities are treating as a “terrorist attack.” The incident coincides with the arrival of Donald Trump’s envoy to Moscow for high -level conversations with Vladimir Putin.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs classified the incident as a “terrorist attack”, and video surveillance images showed a car to explode when the lieutenant general Yaroslav Moskalik He approached him in a suburb of Moscow.
The Russian investigation committee, its main police body, launched a criminal investigation into the death of Moskalik, which occurred when a vehicle trapped with a improvised explosive device detonated.
According to the video surveillance images from the site suggest that Moskalik was passing Near the car at the time of the explosion.
The spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharovaclassified the incident as a “terrorist attack“.
Speaking to a state television, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskovblamed Ukraine for the death of. “The Kiev regime still involved in terrorist activities in Russian territory. Despite peace negotiations, we should be in Guard, ”said Peskov, quoted by the Australian.
Moskalik participated in 2015 negotiations after the annexation of Crimea Through Russia, according to a list of participants published on the Kremlin website, and was a member of the Russian delegation during the final round of conversations in 2019, which included Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Os Russian military bloggers who support the invasion From Ukraine they strongly reacted to the death of Moskalik. The influential channel described it as “one of the smarter and most demanding officers of the main direction of the staff. ”
Moskalik “not much appreciated, because it required results And it was relentlessly hard with its subordinates, ”notes the channel, which describes the case as a murder And he compared him to the head of the radiological, biological and chemical defense forces in December 2024.
“Given the high profile nature of the target and the method of execution, there is little doubt that Ukrainian special services were involved“Says Rybar.
The Role Research Committee said at the time that Kirillov was killed by a remotely detonated explosiveplanted in an trotte parked outside a residential complex in Moscow.
Ukraine did not take responsibility for the attack, but anonymous intelligence employees considered it as “a “legitimate target“.
Witkoff is airEUINE WITH PUTIN for the fourth timeat a time when peace conversations reached a critical point. Trump said on Wednesday that Russia was ready for an agreementbut that the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was turned out to be difficult.
Ukraine accepted a US proposal for a total ceasefire in March, but Russia does not.
The White House has proposed since then increasingly generous conditions to Russia, including US recognition of Russian sovereignty in strategic Crimea Peninsulawhich was invaded and illegally attached by Moscow in 2014. Zelensky demanded a ceasefire before talking about concessions.
