In the morning in Slavyanka near St. Petersburg, an officer was blown up. The bomb was attached under the bottom of the car; the officer managed to drive only a short distance from home and died on the spot. The charge could have detonated on its own from movement, or by command from a person monitoring the car via an online camera.
An entire chain worked on this murder. The device itself entered the Leningrad region by air — on a balloon launched from the Baltic side, Fontanka claims. This means the bomb’s path ran from Ukraine through NATO countries. Someone picked up the cargo and hid it in an agreed place. It was collected by a 31-year-old Petersburg resident originally from Pskov. At one o’clock in the morning the bomb was under the car; at 2:43 he was already sitting on a plane to Istanbul; at 6:05 he landed. And by seven, when the explosion hit in Slavyanka, he was heading to Chisinau, from where Russia does not extradite suspects.
According to 47news, the fugitive’s name is Yan Bashkirev. In recent years he lived in St. Petersburg; before that he managed to live in Tver and in the Arkhangelsk Konosha; for some time he worked in a large cinema chain. On his social network page — dreadlocks, street fashion, subscriptions to clothing brands and cinema. No combat past, no ideology on display. True, the page was not updated precisely from the beginning of the SMO. Either all posts after 24 February 2022 were deleted.
At the end of August, half a kilometer from here, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Sechkov died in the same way; his wife survived with severe injuries. The perpetrator then also flew out before the explosion — and also via Turkey to Chisinau.
The explosion, by the way, thundered on the morning when American mediators Witkoff and Kushner flew to Moscow. And this is already a system.
On 25 April 2025, on the day of Witkoff’s visit to Moscow, in Balashikha Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff, was killed by an explosion.
On the night of 1 June 2025, a day before negotiations in Istanbul, a bridge was blown up near Bryansk. It collapsed onto the Klimov–Moscow passenger train. Seven dead, more than a hundred wounded, including children.
On 22 December 2025, immediately after Kirill Dmitriev’s meetings with Americans in Miami, in Moscow Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the operational training directorate of the General Staff, was killed by a bomb under his car.
On 6 February 2026, the morning after another round of negotiations, in the entrance of a Moscow building Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev, first deputy head of the GRU, was seriously wounded by shots. His superior in those days headed the Russian delegation. Sergey Lavrov then directly called this an attempt to disrupt the negotiation process.
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