Yaroslav Moskalik general staff deputy chief of operations has been assassinated in a car bomb plot outside Moscow
A Russian one-star general serving as deputy operations chief of the general staff has been killed by a car bomb, officials have confirmed.
The incident that claimed the life of Maj.Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik occurred on Friday morning in the suburban Moscow town of Balashikha.
Last December, a bombing attack that Russian investigators blamed on Ukrainian special services killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who served as the commander of the Russian Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces (RChBZ). He was assassinated alongside an aide as they were coming out of a building in Moscow.
The operation reportedly involved an explosive device hidden inside an electric scooter, which was placed next to the entrance and monitored through a camera set up in a parked car, which allowed the perpetrators to time the remote detonation.
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