Russia’s Investigative Committee said on Friday it had opened an investigation into the explosion of a car in Moscow that Russian media reported belonged to an exiled Ukrainian political aide.
Russian media reported that the car belonged to Sergei Zavorotniy, a onetime spokesman for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, who has been living in Russia since fleeing Ukraine amid the 2014 anti-government protests.
Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that Zavorotniy was hospitalised.
It is the latest in a series of apparent assassination attempts inside Russia. On Thursday, a member of the Russian military was killed after the car he was driving was blown up in St Petersburg, investigators said.
Source: Reuters
Note: The featured image is an illustrative stock photo only and is not a photograph of the actual explosion.
