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Footage of a car in a car in Balashikh city of Russia.
Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik died in a car bomb blast on Friday in Russia city of Balashikha. The incident happened on the same day when US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witchoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
He was the deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of General Staff of the Russian Army. The car used in the blast was Volkswagen Golf. The Russian inquiry committee confirmed his death, stating that the explosion was made from an IED, with a metal pointed pieces.
Moskalik was called strict general
Russian military blog Raibar has said that when the explosion took place, General Moskalik was not inside the car, but was standing close to the car after exiting a nearby building. However, this information has not been confirmed separately.
It is written in the Raibar blog about Moskalik that he was a ‘capable and strict officer’ and was very strict on his juniors, so he was not liked much. ‘
There have been such attacks on Russian officials before
No one has taken responsibility for this attack so far. But the attack is the same as the Russian officers have been done earlier.
In December last year, General Igor Kirilov died after a bomb exploded in an electric scooter parked outside an apartment building in Moscow. He was accused of planning the use of chemical weapons in the Ukraine War.
After the blast in an electric scooter, only the scooter was saved.
Two days ago underground parking was on fire in Moscow
Russia’s inquiry committee has started a criminal investigation into the blast. A team of forensic experts and police officers is investigating the spot. The Tass news agency had earlier reported that the bomb was desi. Two days before the blast, a fire broke out in an underground parking in a commercial area of Moscow after a blast.