By Anthony Marcus for Eurasia Business News, April 25, 2025. Article no.1497.

A senior Russian general, Lieutenant-General Yaroslav Moskalik, was killed in a car bombing on Friday morning in Balashikha, a town just east of Moscow. The explosion was caused by a homemade improvised explosive device placed in a parked Volkswagen Golf, which detonated as Moskalik was nearby after exiting a building. The blast also killed another individual, and the vehicle was engulfed in flames.

The attack was committed at 10:30 am, when General Moskalik left his house on Nesterov Boulevard in the Aviatorov microdistrict of Balashikha and went to his car parked in the yard. At that moment, a Volkswagen Golf car near the entrance exploded. The blow of the blast wave threw General Moskalik several meters. Death from mine-blast trauma and multiple shrapnel wounds occurred instantly.

Moskalik was the deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff and had been involved in key military and diplomatic activities, including the Normandy Format talks on Ukraine in 2015. He was promoted to lieutenant-general in 2021. Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the bombing, treating it as a targeted assassination.

The incident occurred shortly before a critical peace negotiation meeting in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who was discussing a possible ceasefire in Ukraine13. The Kremlin blamed Ukraine for the attack, consistent with previous accusations against Kyiv for similar assassinations of Russian military officials, including the December 2024 killing of General Igor Kirillov.

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No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing, but the attack fits a pattern of recent targeted killings linked to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Russian officials have expressed concern over security lapses following this and other high-profile attacks on military personnel.

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The killing of Lt. Gen. Moskalik by a car bomb near Moscow highlights escalating tensions and violence amid ongoing peace talks between Russia and the U.S. regarding the Ukraine conflict. Ukrainian secret services could be involved in this operation.

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