Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) said the agency was behind a bombing in Moscow on Wednesday morning that killed two policemen.
According to eyewitnesses and local authorities, an explosion in southern Moscow killed the two policemen when they approached a suspect near their service vehicle at around 1:30 a.m. local time.
Kyiv Post’s sources in HUR confirmed the agency was involved in the attack. The person said the two killed fought in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs).
“[In the early hours] of Dec. 24, two employees of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs were eliminated on Yeletska Street in Moscow, who participated in the war against Ukraine and, in particular, tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war,” the person told Kyiv Post.
The identity of the two policemen killed remains unclear. The source said a local dissident committed the attack.
“At about 1 a.m., a local resident, as a sign of disagreement with the Kremlin’s aggressive policy, eliminated two representatives of the Russian law enforcement agency. Approaching a police car parked near the police station, the man threw an explosive package through the car window, causing an explosion,” the person said.
Two people were also “hospitalized with serious injuries” alongside the policemen killed, the person added.
The blast occurred near the site where Russian Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was killed on Monday by an explosive device planted under his parked car. Sarvarov had led the Russian General Staff’s training department.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kyiv has carried out attacks targeting Russian military officials and pro-Kremlin figures in both Russia and occupied Ukrainian territories.
In December 2024, Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s radiological, chemical, and biological defense forces, was killed by a booby-trapped electric scooter in Moscow, an attack claimed by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
In April 2023, Russian military blogger Maxim Fomin died when a statuette exploded in a Saint Petersburg café. In December the same year, former Ukrainian lawmaker Ilya Kiva – who had fled to Russia and was convicted of treason in absentia – was found shot dead in a park near Moscow in an assassination later attributed to the SBU.
In August 2022, the SBU also staged a car bomb that killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of ultranationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin.