π₯/1. This morning, the deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Major General Yaroslav Moskalik, was passing by the Volkswagen Golf when the planted IED was triggered and explosion happened. Immediately after that, his body was thrown several meters away.
As Russian media now report: βPreliminary, the car filled with explosives could have been specially driven to the house where the soldier lived. The IED was filled with striking elements with a diameter of about 6 mm. The car did not belong to him.β
/2. Moment of the detonation of the planted IED device wich killed Russian Major General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow region this morning.
/3. Footages of Volkswagen Golf in which IED was planted
/4. Site of the incident shortly after the explosion
/5. Body of the Russian Major General Moskalik
/6. A surveillance camera was installed in the exploded car - the explosion occurred when General Yaroslav Moskalik left the entrance of a residential building.
/7. Russian media βThe improvised explosive device (IED) was constructed using VOG-type grenades, originally designed for under-barrel grenade launchers. The VOGs were distributed throughout the vehicle, with the highest concentration located in the left section of the trunk.β
/8. The initial moments following the detonation of the explosive device that killed a Russian general in the Moscow region were captured on camera.
The footage records ongoing secondary detonations, likely caused by additional VOG grenades continuing to explode inside the vehicle.
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/1. During a tense meeting at the White House on Friday, Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Russiaβs terms, warning that Putin had said he would βdestroyβ Ukraine if Kyiv refused. - Financial Times
/2. During the meeting with Zelenskyy in the White House Trump was βcursing all the timeβ, tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points Putin had made in their call a day earlier. - Financial Times.
/3. During Fridayβs meeting, Trump appeared to have adopted many of Putinβs talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own recent statements about Russiaβs weaknesses, said European officials briefed on the meeting. - Financial Times
π₯π’οΈ/1. Tonight there is a very large attack on the Russian Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery with a capacity of 7.9 million tons per year, Samara region of Russia.
According to eyewitnesses, at least dozens of drones hit the refinery. The entire territory of the Novokuybyshevsk refinery is shrouded in smoke and fire after the attack.
/2. Russian witnesses report at least 17 drone strikes at Novokuibyshevsk Oil Refinery.
π₯π’οΈ/1. Russian Volgograd oil refinery was targeted tonight. Strong fires began on the territory of the oil refinery and continue to this moment.
Volgograd oil refinery has the capacity of 14,5 million tons of oil per year.
/2. Volgograd oil refinery on FIRMS after the attack.
/3. Footages of fire on the territory of Volgograd oil refinery filmed by locals.