Car explosion kills Russian military officer and injures wife near St. Petersburg
oglobo27 August 2026 at 14:56
A car explosion killed a military officer from Russia's air and air defense forces and injured his wife in the Pushkin district, in the outskirts of St. Petersburg. The couple would have been targeted as they left their home. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for the vehicle fire, and images show the destroyed car near a store, with emergency teams at the scene. The episode occurs amid a series of assassinations of high-ranking Russian military officers since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Kyiv has already admitted responsibility for similar attacks.
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