Russian General Jaroslav Moskalik, that died last Friday in Balašiche near Moscow at the explosion of a charge set in the car, He was responsible for monitoring the situation in the war in Ukraine and prepared for this documents for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Minister of Defense. Referring to a necrologist published by the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Krasnaya Zvezda departmental newspaper, the British BBC station informed about it on Tuesday, writes TASR.
Moskalik was a deputy chief of the Chief Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. The rank of General President Vladimir Putin awarded him in 2021.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Saturday the detention of a man suspected of killing Moskalik, saying he was acted at the order of Ukraine. In its statement, the FSB specified that the detainee is an agent of Ukrainian secret services Ignat Kuzin, born in 1983, who allegedly set an explosive into the Volkswagen Golf car.
According to FSB, the components of the explosive device were removed from the hiding place set up in the Moscow region by Ukrainian secret services. On Friday, April 25, this device was “activated remotely from Ukraine”. During the explosion of the charge in the city of Balašich in the Moscow region lost his life Major General Moskalik.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Genskyj praised the Ukrainian intelligence service on Monday – but did not mention the explosion of a car in which Moskalik died, Reuters said. Greeding only said he was informed of the elimination of individuals from the Supreme Command of the Russian Armed Forces. “Justice must prevail,” added Greeny in social networks.
According to AFP, the explosion in Balašiche is similar to the previous attacks on the Russians who were associated with war -unleashed Russia in Ukraine. In some cases, Kiev has been responsible for these assassinations, AFP added.
These attacks include the explosion of the car Darie Dugin, the daughter of the nationalist ideologist Alexander Dugin, In August 2022, even an explosion in the café in St. Petersburg in April 2023, which died a war blogger Maxim Fomin, known as Vladlen Tatarskij. In December 2024, Igor Kirillov, commander of the Russian army chemical weapons, was killed by a bomb set in Moscow. For the time being, it is the most daring assassination to which Kiev has signed up since the beginning of the war.
