Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in the explosion of a self -bomb in Balashikha, in the Moscow region. Several Telegram channels report it.
Moskalik, deputy head of the Operational Command of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces until 2021, remained the victim of the explosion of a distance triggered vehicle.
It is the second attack on prominent exponents of the Russian Armed Forces in a few months. On December 17, 2024, General Igor Anatalyevich Kirillov, head of the radionuclear, chemical and biological defense forces of the Federation, had always died of the explosion of a device. The murder had been attributed by Moscow to the Ukrainian secret services.
Moscow accuses Kiev for the murder of General Moskalik
“There are reasons to believe that the Ukrainian special services are involved in the murder, above all because” the Russian general “Yaroslav Moskalik was already known to them for his work in the contact group of Minsk and in the Normandy format for the resolution of the conflict in Sudoriental Ukraine”: the spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said it, cited by Tass. ” He will confirm the Ukrainian track in this case, then this will once again demonstrate the barbaric nature of the Kiev regime once again to the world community, which focuses on an escalation of military confrontation with Russia and irresponsibly ignores the constructive proposals aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the conflict “, said Zakharova again according to Tass.