Ukraine war briefing: Moscow car bomb kills Russian ammunition chief – reports
A car bomb in the Moscow region killed a general in charge of heavy ammunition supplies for the Russian army, reports said. The car exploded
A car bomb in the Moscow region killed a general in charge of heavy ammunition supplies for the Russian army, reports said. The car exploded in Balashikha, killing its driver. He was named in reports as Damir Davydov, head of the Russian defence ministry’s missile and artillery wing. A second car bomb was discovered and blown up by authorities in south-west Moscow, reports said. Throughout the war several audacious assassinations have taken place of senior figures involved in Moscow’s war effort, with Ukrainian security services either claiming responsibility or being blamed by Russian authorities.
Disruptions to fuel supplies have triggered panic-buying in Russia’s Krasnodar region, the governor said, as Ukrainian strikes on energy infrastructure continued to hit fuel deliveries across several southern regions and Russian-held Crimea. On Tuesday, emergency services said they had finally extinguished an oil depot fire in the town of Ust-Labinsk in Krasnodar after a Ukrainian drone attack on Saturday. “Against the backdrop of a difficult situation in neighbouring regions, many people decided to stock up on gasoline, which caused artificial panic buying,” said the governor, Veniamin Kondratyev.
A Ukrainian drone attack started a fire in a fuel tank, the governor of Russia’s southern Rostov region said early on Wednesday. Yuri Slyusar said the drone attack took place in the region’s Millerovsky district, just over the Ukrainian border. He said there was no early indication of casualties. In Russia’s Dagestan region, explosions shook the town of Kizilyurt as a gas pipeline blew up. Kizilyurt’s mayor’s office said the fire was believed to have engulfed a gas distribution station, Interfax reported. The EU hopes to ban Russian soldiers from entering member states as part of further sanctions that also target banks, crypto firms and the Kremlin’s oil revenues, Jennifer Rankin writes from Brussels.
The commission wants to maintain a price cap on Russian oil at $44 until January 2027; add 30 “shadow fleet” oil tankers to its blacklist, in addition to 632 already under restrictions; and extend sanctions against cryptocurrency firms, banks and oil traders helping Russia.
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