A Russian general was killed by a car bomb on Friday, Russia’s top criminal investigation agency said, in the second such attack on a top Russian military officer in four months. Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, was killed by an explosive device placed in his car in Balashikha, just outside Moscow.

The explosive device was rigged with shrapnel the investigation agency did not mention possible suspects. The attack follows the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who died on December 17, 2024, when a bomb hidden on an electric scooter parked outside his apartment building exploded as he left for his office.