Update. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation confirmed that during the explosion of the Volkswagen Golf car in Balashikha, Deputy Head of the Main Operational Administration of the General Staff of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, died. The explosion occurred as a result of the operation of a homemade explosive device. A criminal case was opened on the murder and illegal circulation of explosives (Articles 105 and 222.1 of the Criminal Code). In the Balashikha near Moscow in the courtyard of the house, a car exploded. According to the Mash telegram channels close to the security forces, General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, died during the explosion. Officially, information about the death of the military was not confirmed. The explosion occurred on the morning of April 25 at the house, which is located in the microdistrict of aviators. This microdistrict was planned as a quarter for military pensioners, the Agency notes. The fact that many residents of the district were military were told by residents themselves MSK1. According to the “base” and “112”, the Volkswagen car, parked next to one of the houses, exploded at about 10:40. Judging by the frames from the scene of the explosion, the windows knocked out in the apartments on the lower floors, one of the cars standing nearby was also damaged. After the explosion, the Volkswagen caught fire, the rescuers soon extinguished it. Immediately after the explosion, the media reported one deceased. However, according to Kommersant, there may be two of them – the driver of the exploding car and his passenger who got out of the car. Other sources do not report the possible second deceased. The television channels write that the car exploded when General Moskalik left the entrance. Initially, it was reported that a random local resident died, and a gas cylinder could explode in the car. However, this version scattered after the experts found fragments of a homemade explosive device and damaging elements, says 112. The fact that the Volkswagen exploded the IEV, also told TASS with reference to operational services. The investigators suggest that it writes that the car was specially parked at the entrance, where the military lived. The agency studied leaks and confirmed that the Moskalik lived in house 2 on Nesterov Boulevard, from whom the exploding car was parked. According to Mash, the bomb was laid in a car next to the gas -tank equipment, it was activated remotely. Izvestia and 112 close to them were published with the moment of the explosion. They can see that the car explodes when someone approaches it. The overturned Volkswagen, apparently, did not belong to Moskalika. According to leaks, the general had a 2020 Skoda Kodiaq. In turn, Volkswagen has been resolded at least three times since the end of January, Mash writes. According to him, the last owner of the car was the 40-year-old Ignat K., a native of the Ukrainian city of Sumy. The journalists managed to find not a lot of information on the 58-year-old Moskalik. In 2015, it was mentioned as a representative of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces among participants in negotiations on the settlement of war in the east of Ukraine in the Norman format. The Agency found that in 2018, Moskalik participated in the supervision of the supply of phosphate ore by the Russian company Stroytransgaz from Syria. This is stated in the general dossier on the site Unacovelingwagner, which tracks the activities of the Wagner PMC. In addition, Moskalik regularly performed at various international conferences, including at the Moscow International Security Conference, where he spoke of Syria. In 2021, the military received the title of Lieutenant General. The investigation committee of Russia said that a criminal case was opened in connection with the explosion of the machine. For which article is not specified. (Tagstotranslate) News
In Balashikha near Moscow, a car exploded. The deputy chief of the General Staff department, General Yaroslav Moskalik, died
