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Bombings in Russia kill a military officer and injure an adviser to Ukraine’s former prime minister
A CAR bombing in Moscow today injured an adviser to Ukraine’s former prime minister, the second such attack in as many days. The explosion struck a car driven by Sergei Zavorotnyi, who previously work
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The explosion struck a car driven by Sergei Zavorotnyi, who previously worked as an adviser to former prime minister Mykola Azarov, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee.
He was hospitalised, and the committee did not identify possible suspects.
It came as Ukraine fired almost 1,200 drones at Russian targets overnight in one of its biggest aerial attacks.
Mr Azarov served under president Viktor Yanukovych, who was overthrown in the EU-backed Maidan coup of 2014 and lives in Russia.
On Thursday, a military serviceman was killed in St Petersburg by a bomb in his vehicle.
The Fontanka news outlet said the victim was a colonel and claimed the bomb was flown over the border from Ukraine in a hidden balloon and planted on instructions from Ukraine’s spy agency by a man who got a job at a grocery store near the victim’s home.
Other Russian media said the victim was a senior air force officer.
Moscow has blamed Kiev for a series of bombings and shootings targeting people involved in the war, and Kiev has claimed responsibility for some.
Ukraine’s security service said in December 2024 it organised the killing of Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, who died when a bomb hidden in a scooter exploded outside his Moscow apartment.
Meanwhile, EU nations are seeking an envoy to represent them in talks on ending the war, concerned that a US-backed process will leave them sidelined.
EU leaders met at a summit in Dublin today, with no consensus yet on whether one person or a team should take the role, or what it might entail.
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