{"id":54531,"date":"2025-04-27T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T10:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54531\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T10:37:11","slug":"russia-says-suspected-ukrainian-agent-arrested-in-moscow-car-bomb-attack-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54531\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says suspected Ukrainian agent arrested in Moscow car-bomb attack \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Kyiv regime once again simply shows its true nature. The Kyiv regime continues to be involved in terrorist activity on the territory of our country,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx201j555r1o\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx201j555r1o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told a state TV reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion on Friday came hours before United States President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff\u00a0met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for a new round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-very-close-ceasefire-deal-truce-putin-zelenskyy-war\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-very-close-ceasefire-deal-truce-putin-zelenskyy-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-level diplomatic talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The victim of Friday\u2019s attack\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sledcom_press\/20695\" target=\"_blank\">was identified<\/a>\u00a0as Yaroslav Moskalik, 59, deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>According to the authorities, the explosion occurred at approximately 10:40 a.m. local time in Balashikha, a city\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/25\/world\/europe\/russian-officer-explosion-moscow-ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just outside Moscow<\/a>, as Moskalik was passing by a parked Volkswagen Golf near his residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Kyiv regime once again simply shows its true nature. The Kyiv regime continues to be involved in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,2000,299,660,2597,332,1199,7070,657,49,333,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-54531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-kremlin","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-services","15":"tag-steve-witkoff","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-vladimir-putin","19":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114409494506822601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}