A Moscow district was rattled by a new explosion overnight, marking a second direct attack on a security installation in the same location in just three days, signaling a potential escalation in targeted violence against Russian state authorities.
The incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday on Yasenevaya Street—the exact location where a senior military commander, Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, was killed by a car bomb on Monday. According to initial reports from local media, an unknown assailant threw an improvised explosive device into a stationary traffic police vehicle parked near a local police station, triggering the blast at approximately 1:30 a.m.
The attack inflicted serious injuries on two traffic police officers inside the vehicle. Unconfirmed reports from multiple Russian news sources suggest that both officers subsequently succumbed to their wounds. Eyewitnesses described hearing at least two distinct explosions, seeing suspects flee the scene, and observing one victim with severe leg injuries lying near the severely damaged police car.
The response was swift. The area was immediately cordoned off by security forces as a major operational response unfolded. Emergency services, explosives disposal experts, and investigative teams descended on the site, working under high tension and heightened fears of further planned assaults.
Russia's powerful Investigative Committee has formally launched a criminal case into the attack. However, as the situation develops, officials have not yet publicly identified a clear motive or attributed responsibility for either this blast or the earlier assassination of General Sarvarov.
The back-to-back bombings in the same precise urban corridor point to a calculated and brazen pattern, moving the violence from a targeted assassination of a military figure to an assault on routine law enforcement. This shift intensifies concerns within the capital about the security of its own institutions and the emergence of a focused campaign of intimidation against the state's uniformed representatives.
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