Second Car Bomb to Hit Russia in Two Days Targets Exiled Ukrainian Political Aide, Media Report
Investigators treated the blast as attempted murder and suspected Ukrainian intelligence involvement, as Sergei Zavorotny remained hospitalized in serious condition.
- On Friday, Russia's Investigative Committee opened an investigation into a car explosion in Moscow's Chertanovo district that hospitalized 72-year-old journalist Sergei Zavorotny in serious condition.
- Zavorotny, a former aide to Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, fled Ukraine for Russia following the 2014 Maidan Revolution and became a prominent voice for pro-Kremlin and anti-Western views.
- Investigators are treating the blast as attempted murder, with Kommersant newspaper reporting suspicions of possible involvement while Zavorotny was driving on Kirovogradskaya Ulitsa.
- This incident follows a Thursday car bomb in Petersburg that killed a Russian military officer, whom local reports identified as a colonel in the Russian Aerospace Forces.
- Authorities view these events as part of a series of apparent assassination attempts inside Russia, with another military officer killed in the same Petersburg neighborhood in August.
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Second car bomb to hit Russia in two days targets exiled Ukrainian political aide, media report
MOSCOW, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Russia's Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, said on Friday that it had opened an investigation into the explosion of a car in Moscow that Russian media reported belonged to an exiled Ukrainian politi...
In Moscow, a Toyota car exploded on the street of Kirovogrado in the Certanovo district, and an explosive wave of the driver was thrown at...
In the south of Moscow, a car exploded, a criminal case was opened and declared before the Russian Federation ' s Investigation Committee (RCC). "A criminal case was opened following the car explosion on Kirovogradsk Street in Moscow", according to a report in the Mach Canal of the Russian Federation on Friday.
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