For the second time in little more than a year, a blast tore through the Moscow suburb of Balashikha, Russia, and left a Russian military figure dead.On June 9, explosives planted under a BMW detonated as the driver began leaving a parking lot, according to independent Russian outlet The Insider.The outlet identified the man killed as Lt.
Gen.Damir Davydov, a Russian Defense Ministry official responsible for supplying missiles and artillery ammunition to Russian forces fighting in Ukraine.The location was striking.
The explosion occurred roughly 1,150 feet from the site where Lt.Gen.
Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the Main Operations Directorate of Russia's General Staff, was killed in a car bombing in April 2025, according to the French newspaper Le Monde.'PURE HELL' IN MOSCOW AS UKRAINIAN DRONES STRIKE MAJOR REFINERY SUPPLYING CAPITAL'S FUEL MARKETA screen grab from a video shows the car in which senior Russian military officer Gen.Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in, confirmed by Russia's Investigative Committee, on April 25, 2025, in the Moscow region, Russia. (Russian Investigative Committee / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)Months before Moskalik’s death, another senior Russian officer was assassinated in Moscow. Lt.
Gen.Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, was killed when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter exploded outside an apartment building.
A source in Ukraine’s Security Service, known as the SBU, told Reuters the agency carried out the operation.Together, the attacks are part of a broader pattern of assassinations and attempted assassinations targeting senior Russian military figures — a campaign that a European intelligence source says is now exposing tensions inside Putin’s own security system.Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, senior Russian military figures have been killed in missile strikes, drone attacks, car bombings, crashes and front...