Assassination of a senior Russian colonel with a car bomb in St. Petersburg.
A lieutenant colonel in the Russian army was killed in the explosion of an explosive device placed under his car in the suburbs of St. Petersburg.
According to initial reports, this officer, whose name has not yet been released, was the senior navigation officer of the 6th Army of the Russian Air Force and Air Defense Forces.
The accident happened in the Shoshri area; When this policeman left the courtyard of a residential complex with his car.
According to reports, the bomb installed under the car detonated remotely while driving on the Kolpinskoye highway, and the Russian colonel died on the spot.
This is the second almost similar explosion against a senior officer of the Russian Air Force and Air Defense in the same area in less than three months.