Russia accuses Ukraine in bombing death of general near Moscow

Bloomberg News on Apr 26, 2025

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Russia said it arrested a man suspected in the murder of a senior military official near Moscow and claimed that a car bomb had been activated remotely from Ukraine.

An investigation suggests an improvised explosive device stuffed with shrapnel and placed within a Volkswagen Golf was detonated from Ukrainian territory, the Interfax news service reported on Saturday, citing Russia’s Federal Security Service. The blast killed Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the main operations directorate for Russia’s General Staff.

Russian officials on Friday said that Moskalik was killed by the explosion of car parked in the courtyard of a house in Balashikha, near Moscow. The murder marked one of the highest-profile assassinations of a senior Russian military official since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

Ignat Kuzin, 41, allegedly an agent of the Ukrainian intelligence service, has been detained and interrogated, Interfax said. There’s been no immediate comment from Ukraine.

“After the Russian military serviceman emerged from a house, the IED was activated remotely from Ukraine,” according to an FSB statement reported by Interfax.

In December, a bomb explosion in Moscow killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s radiological, chemical and biological defense forces, and his assistant. Russia at the time accused Ukraine of being behind the assassination.