Russian Military Officer Killed in St. Petersburg Car Bombing

According to the International Desk of Webangah News Agency, Russian security forces confirmed on Thursday that a military officer was killed by a car explosion in the Pushkin district, located in the southern part of St. Petersburg. Initial reports suggest the deceased was a colonel.

The officer, whose identity has not yet been officially released, was reportedly a senior navigation official within the Russian Air Force and Air Defense Forces’ Sixth Army. Russian media reported that the explosion occurred in the Shushary area as the officer was exiting a residential complex in his vehicle.

Sources indicate that a bomb, planted beneath the car, detonated remotely as the vehicle traveled along the Kolpinskoye highway, resulting in the colonel’s death at the scene.

This incident is the second nearly identical explosion targeting a senior officer of Russia’s Air Force and Air Defense Forces in the same region in less than three months.

In a separate development, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that between the evening of November 11 and the morning of November 12, a total of 71 Ukrainian drones were shot down over various regions of the Russian Federation.