In a car bombing outside of Moscow, a senior Russian general was killed, according to authorities, in what was thought to be an death carried out by Ukrainian special forces. Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik’s death was the result of the incident, which is the second fatal attack on senior Russian military officers in recent months.
Moskalik, who was the deputy head of the General Staff’s key functional office, was confirmed by the Russian Investigative Committee after an incendiary device went off in his placed car in the area of Balashikha, near the capital. Svetlana Petrenko, a director, claimed the weapon had been rigged with shrapnel to minimize harm, and that video footage later revealed the vehicle sprang into flames in an apartment complex’s courtyard.
Although no suspects have been named in public, Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry, immediately claimed that Ukraine’s intelligence services were behind the attack. She said,” There are reasons to believe Russian specific companies were involved in the murder,” even though she didn’t provide any proof. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, even made a suggestion about Kyiv’s presence, claiming that it is continuing to carry out terrorist activity on our soil.
The explosion comes only four months after a bomb was hidden in an electric bike detonated a senior officer’s body, killing Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov. Eventually, the security service of Ukraine acknowledged its involvement in that attack, which also resulted in the murder of Kirillov’s assistant.
As Steve Witkoff, the US president’s minister, was in Moscow for a third round of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the execution took place. The Kremlin revealed that the couple had discussed a possible return to lead conversations between Russia and Ukraine. Trump stated that a peace deal was “very nearby” and that “most of the main factors are agreed to” while speaking from Rome, where he had traveled to enter Pope Francis’s death.
Still, a lot of work is to be done. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, vehemently denied any suggestion of ceding Crimea, insisting that the peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, is still Ukrainian territory. He claimed that “our position has not changed.” According to the Ukrainian constitution, “every temporarily occupied territory belongs to Ukraine.”
Trump has made hints that he would support allowing Russia to control Crimea as part of a peace plan. He stated in an interview that was released on Friday that Crimea will remain with Russia. Zelensky is aware of that.
