Russian general killed by a car bomb just outside Moscow

A Russian general was killed by a car bomb Friday, Russia's top criminal investigation agency said, in the second such attack on a top Russian military officer in four months that Moscow blamed on Ukraine. The committee said 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 committee's spokesperson said the explosive device was rigged with shrapnel. Russian media ran videos of a vehicle burning in the courtyard of an apartment building. The committee did not immediately mention possible suspects, but Russian a foreign ministry spokesperson said without offering evidence that "there are reasons to believe Ukrainian special services were involved in the killing."