{"id":290100,"date":"2025-04-25T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/senior-russian-officer-killed-in-car-explosion-near-moscow\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:10:15","slug":"senior-russian-officer-killed-in-car-explosion-near-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/senior-russian-officer-killed-in-car-explosion-near-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Russian Officer Killed in Car Explosion Near Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/25\/multimedia\/25int-russia-lhqm\/25int-russia-lhqm-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Senior Russian Officer Killed in Car Explosion Near Moscow\" title=\"Senior Russian Officer Killed in Car Explosion Near Moscow\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A senior Russian military commander was killed on Friday in a car explosion in a suburb of Moscow, investigators said, the latest in a series of fatalities among Ukraine\u2019s opponents inside Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Investigative Committee of Russia, the country\u2019s equivalent to the F.B.I., issued a statement <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sledcom_press\/20695\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">identifying the officer<\/a> 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, a suburb east of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The explosion came as Russian state news agencies reported that Steve Witkoff, President Trump\u2019s special envoy, was probably in Moscow. Mr. Witkoff was expected to conduct another round of high-profile negotiations with President Vladimir V. Putin over ending the war in Ukraine and re-establishing the bilateral relationship between Russia and the United States. Mr. Putin has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/25\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-trump.html\" title=\"\">cast aside Mr. Trump\u2019s calls<\/a> for a quick peace in Ukraine, and Russia\u2019s airstrikes on civilian targets appear to be increasing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Video circulating on social media and verified by The New York Times showed a car exploding and catching fire outside an apartment block, sending a thick plume of smoke into the air. Other footage verified by The Times showed people rushing to the scene as secondary explosions echoed in the distance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Ukrainian authorities had no immediate comment when contacted about the killing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In February, a prominent pro-Russia separatist figure from Ukraine, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/03\/world\/europe\/pro-russia-leader-ukraine-killed-moscow.html\" title=\"\">Armen Sarkisyan, was killed<\/a> when a bomb exploded inside a gated residence in Moscow. Ukrainian officials did not comment on the blast at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the end of December, a general in charge of the Russian military\u2019s nuclear and chemical weapons protection forces, Igor Kirillov, was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/17\/world\/europe\/russian-general-bombing-moscow.html\" title=\"\">killed by a bomb<\/a> near the entry to a residential building in Moscow. An official with Ukraine\u2019s security service, known as the S.B.U., said at the time that Ukraine was responsible for the killing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Maria Varenikova<!-- --> and <!-- -->Sanjana Varghese<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/25\/world\/europe\/russian-officer-explosion-moscow-ukraine.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Russian military commander was killed on Friday in a car explosion in a suburb of Moscow, investigators said, the latest in a series of fatalities among Ukraine\u2019s opponents inside Russia. The Investigative Committee of Russia, the country\u2019s equivalent to the F.B.I., issued a statement identifying the officer as Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/25\/multimedia\/25int-russia-lhqm\/25int-russia-lhqm-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[475,171,180716,1177,3098,168243,8482,1461,10650],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290102,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290100\/revisions\/290102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}