Russian Ammo Supply Chief Killed in Car Bombing Near Moscow

Russian investigative media outlet The Insider confirmed that the victim of a car bombing on Tuesday was Col. Damir Davydov, a Russian military official responsible for supplying missile and artillery ammunition to the front.

Davydov, the Defense Ministry’s head of missile and artillery command, was reportedly killed when his BMW X3 was blown up near a high-rise building in the Moscow suburb of Balashikha at around 5:30 a.m.

Earlier, Russian authorities confirmed the explosion and opened a criminal case, but had not yet disclosed the victim’s identity, leaving multiple Telegram channels to speculate whether the victim was a senior officer in Russia’s Aerospace Forces, Alexander Maksimtsev.

Early reports suggest the blast, which had a power equivalent to about 400 grams of TNT, occurred less than a kilometer from where Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a nearly identical car bombing in the same military residential district just over a year ago. That was the fourth killing of a Russian officer at the rank of lieutenant general inside Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

The Aviatorov district, close to where the attack happened, is a residential neighborhood originally built for Russian military personnel and their families. According to Russian media, apartments there were distributed through Russia’s Ministry of Defense to combat veterans and military retirees, as well as their relatives.

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H2:: No evidence of Ukrainian involvement

There is currently no public evidence linking Kyiv to the Balashikha bombing, and no confirmation has emerged so far that Ukrainian security services played a role in this attack. Ukrainian authorities have not commented on the incident yet.