A senior Russian military commander was killed on Friday in a car explosion in a suburb of Moscow, investigators said.
The Investigative Committee of Russia, the country’s equivalent to the F.B.I., issued a statement identifying the officer as Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a senior figure in the Russian General Staff who was directly involved in planning operations. The investigators said that they had opened a criminal inquiry into the explosion, which took place in the town of Balashikha, east of Moscow.
BREAKING:
Looks like Ukraine’s military intelligence has eliminated one of Russia’s top-level war criminals.
Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff, Major General Yaroslav Moskalik, was killed in a car bomb explosion in Moscow this morning pic.twitter.com/mUPLv1UAP5
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