A Yanukovych-era spokesman turned Kremlin voice survives a car bomb in Moscow, barely
Russian channels say he climbed out of the wreck himself before doctors put him in intensive care in critical condition.
A bomb detonated under a car in southern Moscow on November 13, seriously injuring Serhii Zavorotnyi, a former adviser to the late Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, who served under Viktor Yanukovych, according to Russian news outlet Mash. Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation. Since late 2024, a series of bombings and shootings have claimed the lives of Russian military personnel and collaborators in what Kyiv alleges is a covert war, though the incidents remain unexplained.
The Moscow incident occurred the day after a remote-controlled car bomb killed a Russian colonel near St. Petersburg. This time, the target was not a military officer but a former Ukrainian official who defected to Moscow. In 2020, a US Senate committee designated him as an officer of Russia's foreign intelligence service, SVR, involved in influence operations.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, and neither Kyiv nor Zavorotnyi have commented. The Toyota vehicle exploded on Kirovogradskaya Street in Moscow's Chertanovo district, with the bomb fixed to the driver's side of the car, according to Russian news outlet Baza. The 72-year-old Zavorotnyi managed to exit the vehicle before being transported to the hospital, where he is now in intensive care in critical condition.
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, citing the Investigative Committee, described the blast as an attempted murder using a dangerous method.
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