A Russian military serviceman is killed when a car he is driving is blown up in St Petersburg, according to investigators and multiple media reports. Russia’s Investigative Committee says a criminal case into the death of a member of the armed forces has been opened, while video and local reporting are cited across outlets.
Several reports describe the death as part of a broader pattern of apparent targeted attacks on military figures. The Moscow Times and Kyiv Post add that this is not the first such incident, with the Moscow Times saying the officer is the second military official killed in a car bomb in the same neighborhood this year, and Kyiv Post linking it to multiple attacks elsewhere. Other outlets focus more directly on the blast details in the city and the fact that investigators are treating it as a murder.
Coverage differs most on the serviceman’s branch and the reported location specifics, with some identifying the victim as an aerospace forces or Air Force officer and others giving neighborhood or road descriptors rather than the same label.
