Eyewitnesses told the portal that the explosion occurred around 10 a.m. near the “Magnit” store on Kolpino Avenue.
The “Geely” SUV exploded after the driver started the engine and drove a few meters, clarified the “Shot” Telegram channel. The car’s windows shattered, the hood was torn off, and the bumper was bent, with debris flying tens of meters away. Nearby parked cars were damaged.
Preliminary data suggests that a homemade explosive device detonated in the car. The deceased had his legs severed, writes “Mash”.
Military Quarter
The incident occurred in a neighborhood that was actively being developed with housing for military personnel. In 2010, Vladimir Putin, then serving as Prime Minister, visited Slavianka to inspect the constructed houses. By 2012, the Ministry of Defense owned nearly a third of the housing being built in this area.
There is no official information yet about the identity of the deceased or the circumstances of the explosion.
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Who was previously blown up
This is already the third case of a high-ranking Russian military officer being blown up since the beginning of the month. On August 13, Russian Navy Captain 1st Rank Robert Shaheev died in an explosion on Sevastopol Street; before the annexation of Crimea, he served in the Ukrainian Navy and commanded Ukraine’s only submarine “Zaporizhzhia”.
On August 1, an explosion occurred at the “Balzi Rossi” restaurant in Moscow. Five people died, and at least 19 were injured. The target of the assassination attempt may have been General Alexander Chaika, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Space Forces, whom the Ukrainian authorities accuse of involvement in crimes in Bucha. No official information about his condition after the explosion has been provided.
Meanwhile, later in Moscow, the funerals of Major General Valery Plochotniuk and Alexander Chaika’s son-in-law Danilo Peredryay, who died on the same day – August 1 – took place. Meanwhile, 26-year-old Maria, Alexander Chaika’s daughter, according to a source from the “Astra” channel, suffered multiple shrapnel wounds and is being treated at Moscow’s N. I. Pirogov 1st City Clinical Hospital.
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