A senior Russian general was killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow’s eastern suburb of Balashikha, in what Russian investigators and Kremlin authorities said was a “terrorist attack”. Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, 59, a member of the Russian General Staff, was killed when a Volkswagen Golf exploded after an improvised explosive device was triggered. The Kremlin swiftly blamed Ukraine for the car bomb, the latest in a series of Russian military officers and pro-war figures to be assassinated since the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kyiv did not comment on the claims by Moscow that it was behind the killing. Russian war bloggers described Moskalik as a rising star. He had participated in several high-level Russian delegations that had met Western officials to try to negotiate a settlement to the conflict in Ukraine.