A car bombing on Friday in Moscow badly injured an adviser to Ukraine’s former prime minister in the second such attack in as many days and part of a series linked to the conflict with Russia’s neighbor.
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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.
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Zavorotnyi was hospitalized with injuries, the committee added.
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It didn’t identify possible suspects pending a criminal inquiry.
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Azarov served as prime minister under Ukraine’s Moscow-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych, who was forced from office by protesters and fled to Russia in February 2014.
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Azarov, who also lives in Russia, told state TV that he believes his former adviser was targeted because of his criticism of of Ukrainian authorities.
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Zavorotnyi. 72, had worked as a journalist for Russia’s daily Komsomolskaya Pravda before becoming Azarov’s adviser.
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He wroted a book about Yanukovych’s ouster and ran an online outlet critical of Ukrainian authorities.
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Russia’s REN TV channel said he was seriously injured and in a coma after the explosion.
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The U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence in a report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election identified Zavorotnyi as an officer with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.
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On Thursday, a military serviceman was killed in St. Petersburg by a bomb in his vehicle, according to the Investigative Committee.
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It didn’t identify the victim or say who could be behind the bombing.
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The Fontanka news outlet said the victim was a colonel and a bomb in his car went off as he was driving.
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It claimed the bomb used for the attack had been flown over the border from Ukraine into Russia in a balloon and hidden before it was picked up and used in the attack.
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The device was planted on instructions from Ukraine’s spy agency by a man who had gotten a job at a grocery store near the apartment building where the victim lived, Fontanka said.
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It claimed that the man fled Russia immediately after the attack.
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Other Russian online media said the victim of the St. Petersburg bombing was a senior air force officer.
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Ukrainian authorities haven’t commented on either bombing.
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There have been a series of bombings and shootings in Russia that targeted people involved in the fighting in Ukraine.
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Moscow has blamed Kyiv for the attacks.
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Kyiv has claimed responsibility for some attacks inside Russia.
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Ukraine’s SBU security service said in December 2024 that it had organized the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed the Russian military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces.
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Kirillov was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him.
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In August of this year, a bomb ripped through an upscale restaurant in central Moscow, killing five people, including the bomber, and injuring about 20 others in what the mayor called a “brutal terrorist act.”
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Russian media outlets claimed the bombing targeted Col.-Gen. Alexander Chaiko, who led the troops that made a botched attempt to storm the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in 2022 and later was appointed the air force chief.
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Later that month, the director of a Russian drone factory was badly injured and his driver was killed by a bomb planted in their car just outside Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains.
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Also in August, a military servicema n was killed and his wife was injured by a car bomb on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.
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wife → kill → Petersburg
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