The American businessman became a diplomatic envoy from President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, arrived in Moscow to see more conversations about the Russian Federation.
The Russian government confirmed the arrival of Donald Trump’s Middle East sent Steve Witkoff at Vnukovo International Airport on Friday, where he will have more meetings with Russian leaders, including President Vladimir Putin, as part of the current approach process.
Only a few hours before Witkoff landed, however, a suburb of Moscow was shaken by an explosion that killed a Kremlin general. While no explosion response has a leg claim, some Western points of sale have declared that the team attack has the characteristics of a Kiev murder operation, several of which have been seen in the leg against Russian Ukrainian citizens and Pro-Kremlin.
The Russian state media said before their planned meeting with President Putin, the United States Witkoff with Kirill Dmitriev and the two “tok a short walk through the center of the Russian capital.” Dmitriev educated in Harvard is the leader of the Fund of Sovereign Wealth of Russia and has had a prominent role in the restoration of the left between the two nations, and despite having sanctions related to the war against him. I recently visited Washington DC to speak.
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On Friday morning, an explosion in the Moscow region of Balashikha took place. The Kremlin said the explosion, a car bomb, killed the deputy chief of the main operations direction of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Yaroslav Moscimik. Great Britain BBC notes That Moscalik General had a very appreciated leg within the Ministry of Defense of Russia as an analytical thinker and that he had previously represented as a negotiator in Russia in the 2014 Minsk agreements.
That these 2014 negotiations had a farce and a deliberate ploy of Russia to buy time for their own rearno to throw an invasion later and larger is a key claim of Ukraine, who arguing that you cannot trust Russia and no new negotiation. The link of the murdered man, therefore, could be seen as loan credibility, As expressed by he Guardian Newspaper, that this was a murder led by Ukraine.
Ukraine has not claimed an answer for the explosion at the time of publication, but certainly has tasks about political murder as one of the weapons in its arsenal during this war, with particularly favored car bombs. As reported above in December 2024 When Ukraine said he had “liquidated” a series of pro-ruse figures, a missile scientist and a Ukrainian prison governor who had supported Moscow:
These murders are only the last in a line of such “liquidations” by the Ukrainian state that eliminates what it calls traitors and collaborators. Last months, a superior naval officer accused of war crimes Killed in Sebastopol, CrimeaAlso task with a car pump. Russia confirmed the murder, calling him a terrorist attack. As noted at that time: “The Russian media reported that the explosion started Trankovsky’s legs and died from blood loss.”
In October, a high -ranking Russian officer involved in the special operations forces was murdered A few days after returning to Moscow from the Front of Ukraine. Nikita Klenkov was fired through the window of her car by an armed man who could escape.
A few days before that, the security chief of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Plant of Russian fighters was another victim To a Ukrainian car pump. kyiv claimed the murder, qualifying Andriy Korottyy a war criminal who “participated in the organization and execution of war crimes and repression of Ukrainians under occupation”, causing the murder to justify “compensation.”
In April, a “collaborator” of Ukrainian Moscow-Loyal in Luhansk occupied that the state education agency directed was Killed by a car pump. He was accused of allowing Russian propaganda in children’s classrooms.
Previously, Ukrainian politicians of the pre-war also reasonably also have the issue of liquidations. In December 2023, Ilya Kiva – That he had been a member of Parliament in the Ukrainian Rada until the war purge of disarming legislators under martial law, was shot in the head. The intelligence services of Ukraine called him “Top Traitor, collaborator and propagandist … criminal” and claimed the murder.
The previous month in November 2023 Ukraine also He claimed the murder of Mikhail Filiponnko Or occupied Luhansk, also a pro-ruso Ukrainian legislator. Ukrainian intelligence said: “It was involved in the organization of torture fields in the occupied territories of the Luhansk region, where the prisoners of war and civil hostages were subjected to inhuman torture. Life” and Saudille in the holy life “and Saudille in the holy life. By partisans.
In some cases, the means to collect intelligence in the objectives of murder of Ukrainian spies, very characteristically modern. When the Russian submarine commander Stanislav Rzhitsky was Shot dead while jogging In Krasnodar it is said that he may have tracked the legs by the GPS Fitness Strava application.
