{"id":652127,"date":"2025-12-24T08:25:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652127\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:25:35","slug":"russia-police-officers-killed-in-new-moscow-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652127\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Police officers killed in new Moscow explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two police officers and one other person were killed in an explosion in southern Moscow overnight, Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Two traffic police officers saw a suspicious person near a police car. When they approached to detain him, an explosive device was detonated,&#8221; the investigators said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The explosion happened near the site of a <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/russian-general-killed-moscow-car-074100327.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:car bomb on Monday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">car bomb on Monday<\/a>, which killed a senior Russian general.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The explosion occurred on Yeletskaya street in the south of the Russian capital city&lt;span class=&quot;copyright&quot;&gt;Ilya Lazarev\/TASS\/ZUMA\/picture alliance&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a6e1ea766548bdd59b65e71673439c64.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred on Yeletskaya street in the south of the Russian capital cityIlya Lazarev\/TASS\/ZUMA\/picture alliance<\/p>\n<p>What do we know about the explosion?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two officers were rushed to hospital but later died of their injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;A person who was near the police officers&#8221; was also killed, the SKR said. Russian state media agency TASS reported that &#8220;the suspect is also dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The SKR has launched a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The agency is also investigating the car bomb which killed lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov on Monday. The general had been heading the training department of Russia&#8217;s General Staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russia has accused Kyiv of being behind several attacks targeting Russian military officers and pro-Kremlin figures since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While Ukraine has confirmed it is responsible for some of those attacks, which have come both in Moscow and in parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine, Kyiv has not commented on Monday&#8217;s bombing.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Russian authorities suspect Ukraine was behind Monday's attack&lt;span class=&quot;copyright&quot;&gt;Semenova Maria\/SIPA\/picture alliance&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b16ec06de577d968c215c7a1de94121c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities suspect Ukraine was behind Monday&#8217;s attackSemenova Maria\/SIPA\/picture alliance<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Edited by: Darko Janjevic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two police officers and one other person were killed in an explosion in southern Moscow overnight, Russia&#8217;s Investigative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32478,2301,109435,28379,332,199566],"class_list":{"0":"post-652127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-investigative-committee","9":"tag-moscow","10":"tag-police-car","11":"tag-police-officers","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-suspicious-person"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115773594407922783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652127","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=652127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}