Two police officers and a third police officer were killed by a bomb in Moscow early Wednesday morning. It was near the scene of a car bombing that killed a top Russian commander two days earlier.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement on Wednesday that two police officers approached a suspicious person and detonated an explosive device near a police car.
“Investigators and forensic experts from the Moscow Investigative Committee continue to examine the crime scene,” Investigative Committee head Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement.
Police are also examining CCTV and interviewing witnesses to identify the culprit, the statement added.
The deadly explosion came days after a Russian general was killed by a car bomb in a neighboring street in the Russian capital.
Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, who was in charge of military operations and training, was killed on Monday morning when an explosive device placed under the chassis of his car detonated, investigators said.
Russian officials have suggested that Ukraine may be behind the apparent assassination of a senior military official. “Investigators are pursuing various motives for the murder. One of the theories is that the crime was organized by Ukrainian special forces,” the Investigative Committee announced on Monday.
Although Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attack on Sarvarov, several prominent Russians have been killed in Moscow in attacks blamed on Ukrainian security services since Russia entered the country in earnest in 2022.
The investigative committee did not comment on the relationship between the two incidents.
