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2026-11-12 · Euronews

Russian officer killed by car bomb in St Petersburg as murder investigation begins

On Thursday, a Russian serviceman was killed in a car explosion in St Petersburg, Russia. The local office of the Investigative Committee said the cause had not yet been established and announced that it had opened a murder investigation. The blast comes as Moscow accuses Kyiv of carrying out a series of killings of Russian military personnel since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago. The Ukrainian armed forces have claimed responsibility for some of the killings, while remaining silent about others. The attacks have involved booby-trapped cars, explosives hidden in scooters and shootings.

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