🔧 Sabotage

Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, the main Russian Army General Staff planner for operations in Ukraine, was assassinated by a car bomb placed in a parked VW Golf.

Moscow, Moscow
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Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, the main Russian Army General Staff planner for operations in Ukraine, was assassinated by a car bomb placed in a parked VW Golf.

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 25, reportedly to secure a major Russian concession in a future peace deal.

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Extracted: 2026-02-16T21:56:26.161Z

Source story: day-1156a-2025-04-28