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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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.
Russian drone factory boss badly injured in car blast that killed driver
The director of a factory supplying drones to the Russian military was badly wounded and his driver was killed when the car they were in exploded, news reports said on Wednesday. The state Tass and RIA Novosti agencies said that Vladimir Tkachuk was hospitalised in grave condition following the explosion late Tuesday in Bolshoy Istok just outside Yekaterinburg, 1,400km (about 870 miles) east of Moscow. There was no immediate comment from the aut…
Drivers and bodyguards died at the scene, the boss himself fighting for his life in a Russian hospital.
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