The Russian general was killed by the car’s peaks outside Moscow. The investigation of the killing was launched

An explosive device was torn through a parked car near Moscow on Friday, killing a senior Russian general, the investigation committee, which was investigating major crimes, adding that it had launched an investigation into a murder.

The victim’s authorities have determined that General Yaroslav Muscalik, Vice -President of the main operational directorate of the general mirrors of the army.

Investigators said they opened an investigation into the killing and smuggling explosives after the Volkswagen Golf game exploded outside a block of apartments in the town of Balikha, east of Moscow.

The photos from the scene published on social media showed a fire fire. The deadly attack comes after four months Another Russian general was killed Along with his deputy in an explosion in Moscow.

Agentstvo Investigative News, citing the information that was leaked, said that Muscalik lived in Balsha, but Volkswagen was not registered with him.

Security camera footage published by the iZVESTIA newspaper showed a huge explosion, as it sent shrapnel flying in the air. The explosion occurs just as someone can see while walking towards the car.

The researchers said that “the explosion was the result of the operation of an improvised explosive device,” packed with metal fragments designed to cause maximum damage.

According to Kremlin, Moskalik was a Russian military actor at “Normandy Format” on Ukraine in 2015, amid the conflict between Kyiv and the Russian -backed separatists.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a year in 2021.

The bombing of Friday came like US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkev He was expected to meet with Putin in Moscow to discuss an average peace plan in the United States to Ukraine.

The explosion seemed to be similar to the previous attacks on the Russians associated with Moscow’s military attack Ukraine.

In some cases, Kyiv claimed responsibility, but he did not comment on Friday’s attack.

These include August 2022 A car bombing for patriotism Daria Dogina An explosion in the Saint Petersburg Café in April 2023, which killed the prominent military correspondent Maxim FatinKnown as Flueen Tatarski. A Russian woman, she said she presented the statue on the orders of communication in Ukraine, Condemn He was sentenced to 27 years in prison.

In December 2023, Illia Kiva, a former Ukrainian legislator, who supported Moscow who fled to Russia, He was shot and killed Near Moscow. The Ukrainian military intelligence praised the death, warning that the other “traitors of Ukraine” would share the same fate.

Igor Kirilov, head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons unit, was He was killed from a cultivated bomb In Scirt, Moscow in December. Ukrainian security sources told CBS News that Ukraine’s security service (SBU) killed Kirillov in a special operation.

After Kirilov’s death, Putin made a rare recognition of failure by his strong security agencies, saying: “We should not allow such very serious mistakes.”