Russian drone factory director badly injured in car explosion
Investigators opened an attempted murder case after the blast killed his driver and left Vladimir Tkachuk in intensive care, Russian media reported.
- On Wednesday, a car explosion in Yekaterinburg severely wounded Vladimir Tkachuk, CEO of Uraldronzavod, and killed his driver, Tass reported.
- Tkachuk led the Uraldronzavod factory manufacturing Upyr drones for the Russian military, cheap first-person view systems troops valued for jamming resistance.
- Russian security agencies have not named suspects in the explosion, which follows a series of recent attacks against senior military officials since February 2022.
- Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has previously described such incidents as a "brutal terrorist act," while Russian authorities have blamed Kyiv for similar attacks.
- Hours prior to the blast, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of the attack, claiming the timing would be a typical calling card for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Russian drone factory director injured in second targeted bombing this week
The director of a Russian drone factory was badly wounded and his driver was killed in a car-bombing that rocked a town hundreds of miles from Moscow earlier this week, according to local news reports.
In Russia, the head of drone factory UralDronZavod was seriously injured in a bomb attack on his car. A similar attack took place a week ago. They fit into a broader series of attacks against high-ranking Russian military officials and others involved in the war in Ukraine or the Russian war industry.
Within a few days, Russia's second explosion already shattered. A Russian drone producer was seriously injured by a car bomb. His driver and bodyguard did not survive.
In Russia, the director of the drone company Uraldronzavod, Vladimir Tkatschuk, was assassinated in an auto explosion. Tkatschuk was seriously injured, his driver had been killed, the authorities informed.
Drivers and bodyguards died at the scene, the boss himself fighting for his life in a Russian hospital.
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