The Kremlin accused Ukraine of orchestrating the carbomb that killed a senior Russian military figure in a town near the city of Moscow Friday.
Russian authorities had launched a criminal inquiry into the death of Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement Friday on behalf of the committee, which is Russia's main federal criminal investigations authority.
Moskalik was killed in the explosion of a Volkswagen Golf in the city of Balashikha following the “detonation of a homemade explosive device filled with shrapnel,” Petrenko added.