Senior Russian General killed by a car bomb in Moscow

The senior Russian general was killed in a car bomb in Moscow, officials confirmed.

The Russian Investigative Committee (SK) – the main federal investigative body in the country – was confirmed by General Yaroslav Moskalik when the golf -Volkswagen car exploded after an improvised explosive device filled with granules.

Local media reported that the car was parked near the General’s house in the eastern suburb of Balashka and exploded as it passed it.

Muscovite represented Russian General Staff in negotiations with Ukraine in Paris in 2015, which led to Minsk Agreements Creation to end the war between Ukraine and the Russian separatist forces that began in 2014.

According to the Kremlin’s website, he joined a Russian contingent led by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Kremlin’s assistant and former US Ambassador to the United States Yuri Usakov for those talks to ceasefire.

Video and photos circulating on Telegram on Friday show a car in a flame near the block of apartments. Nobody has claimed responsibility for a car bomb yet.

The incident is happening when a special Messenger of US President Donald Trump Steve Vitcoof will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate in Central Moscow later on Friday.

Earlier, Lavrov said that Moscow was “ready to achieve a deal” from the US to end the war of Ukraine, although some elements should be “refined”

Meanwhile, in Ukraine, the mayor of Kiev, Vitaly Klitsko, suggested that his country may have to distribute the territory under any peaceful deal.

The drone attacks on Ukraine continued on Friday night.

The Ukrainian Air Force stated that Russia launched 103 drones, which killed three people, including a child and a 76-year-old woman, in the city of Pavlohrad, in the eastern region of Dniprapero.

The northeastern city in Ukraine was also attacked with its mayor Ihor Tereh, saying that several private buildings were damaged.

The blast on Friday is not the first time Russian military figures have been attacked since the war, but purposeful murders in Moscow are rare.

In February this year Armen Sorgan, leader of the pro -Russian paramilitary group in eastern Ukraine, died at the hospital after Blast in the hostess housing in northwestern Moscow. No one claimed responsibility for this attack.

Last year, a high-ranking general in the Russian armed forces, General General Igor Kirilov and his assistant were Killed in Moscow by the Security Service of Ukraine SBU.

Cyril, the head of radiation forces, biological and chemical protection, was outside the residential block when the device hidden in the scooter was removed behind.

The SBU source at the time told the BBC that Cyril was a “legal purpose” and allegedly committed war crimes.