{"id":20897,"date":"2025-04-25T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/russian-general-killed-by-car-bomb-just-outside-moscow-murder-probe-launched\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:00:15","slug":"russian-general-killed-by-car-bomb-just-outside-moscow-murder-probe-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/russian-general-killed-by-car-bomb-just-outside-moscow-murder-probe-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian general killed by car bomb just outside Moscow; murder probe launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>An explosive device ripped through a parked car near Moscow on Friday killing a senior Russian general, the Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes said, adding it had launched a murder probe.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities identified the victim as General-lieutenant Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the main operational directorate of the military&#8217;s General Staff.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said they had opened a probe into murder and smuggling explosives after the Volkswagen Golf blew up outside a block of flats in the town of Balashikha, east of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Images from the scene posted on social media showed a blaze that gutted a car. The deadly attack comes four months after <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/igor-kirillov-russia-nuclear-defense-forces-head-killed-moscow-explosion\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">another Russian general was killed<\/a><\/span> along with his deputy in an explosion in Moscow.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/25\/136db0c9-b289-4b31-b85e-4ee0c797b902\/thumbnail\/620x488\/df579cfc580b9a4d83a847890b485178\/ap25115397222898.jpg?v=8e9dede207b29c97b32974c53e32aabc#\" alt=\"ap25115397222898.jpg \" height=\"488\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/25\/136db0c9-b289-4b31-b85e-4ee0c797b902\/thumbnail\/620x488\/df579cfc580b9a4d83a847890b485178\/ap25115397222898.jpg?v=8e9dede207b29c97b32974c53e32aabc 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/25\/136db0c9-b289-4b31-b85e-4ee0c797b902\/thumbnail\/1240x976\/5cbb8076f891d29d0500e14c6ba7839e\/ap25115397222898.jpg?v=8e9dede207b29c97b32974c53e32aabc 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">In this handout photo released by OSTOROZHNO NOVOSTI, flames and smoke rise from the scene where Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik was killed by an explosive device placed in a car in Balashikha, just outside Moscow, Russia, on Friday, April 25, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                OSTOROZHNO NOVOSTI via AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Agentstvo investigative news site, citing leaked information, said Moskalik lived in Balashikha, but the Volkswagen was not registered to him.<\/p>\n<p>Security camera footage posted by the Izvestia newspaper showed a massive explosion, sending fragments flying into the air. The blast happens just as someone can be seen walking towards the car.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;blast was caused by the triggering of an improvised explosive device&#8221; packed with metal fragments designed to cause maximum harm, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Kremlin website, Moskalik was a Russian military representative at the &#8220;Normandy format&#8221; talks on Ukraine in 2015, amid the conflict between Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin made him general-lieutenant in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s bombing came just as U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s envoy <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/steve-witkoff-trump-envoy-in-russia-kremlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Steve Witkoff <\/a><\/span>was expected to meet with Putin in Moscow to discuss a U.S.-brokered peace plan for Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>The blast appeared to be similar to previous attacks on Russians linked to Moscow&#8217;s military offensive in <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/ukraine-in-turmoil\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ukraine<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv had in some cases claimed responsibility but has not commented on Friday&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p>These include the August 2022 <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/daria-dugina-car-explosion-killed-russia-daughter-alexander-dugin\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">car bombing of nationalist Darya Dugina<\/a><\/span> and an explosion in a Saint Petersburg cafe in April 2023 that killed high-profile military correspondent <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/st-petersburg-bomb-cafe-military-blogger-vladlen-tatarsky\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Maxim Fomin<\/a><\/span>, known as Vladlen Tatarsky. A Russian woman, who said she presented the figurine on orders of a contact in Ukraine,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/darya-trepova-accused-killing-pro-war-blogger-vladlen-tatarsky-faces-28-years-russian-prison\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">was convicted<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and sentenced to 27 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2023, Illia Kiva, a former pro-Moscow Ukrainian lawmaker who fled to Russia,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/illia-kyva-pro-kremlin-ukrainian-politician-assassinated-near-moscow\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">was shot and killed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0near Moscow. The Ukrainian military intelligence lauded the killing, warning that other &#8220;traitors of Ukraine&#8221; would share the same fate.<\/p>\n<p>Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian military&#8217;s chemical weapons unit, was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/igor-kirillov-russia-nuclear-defense-forces-head-killed-moscow-explosion\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">killed by a bomb planted<\/a><\/span> in a scooter in Moscow in December. 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