Moscow car bombing injures former aide to Ukraine’s ex-PM Azarov
Al Mayadeen | November 13, 2026
A car exploded on a Moscow street while the official spokesperson for a former Ukrainian prime minister was inside, Al Mayadeen’s Moscow bureau chief reported on Friday.
The bureau chief said the incident appeared to be an [attempted] assassination targeting Ukrainians who oppose the current Ukrainian government’s policies, adding that suspicion would fall on Ukrainian intelligence services.
The Kommersant newspaper reported that Sergei Zavorotniy, once a top aide of Mykola Azarov, who served as Ukraine’s prime minister from 2010 to 2014, was hospitalized after a car exploded on a street in Chertanovo, a district of the Russian capital.
It was the second car bombing in Russia in successive days. Moscow has blamed Ukraine for previous assassinations of senior military officials and people linked to Russia’s war effort. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine on Friday.
Ren TV and the 112 Telegram channel both reported that Zavorotniy had lost his left arm in the attack, and that he was in hospital with a concussion, rib fractures and other injuries. The Baza Telegram channel published a photograph of a black four-door car with a smashed windshield, doors and front bumper on a city street.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, said it had opened an investigation into the incident.
Zavorotniy’s former boss Azarov fled to Russia in 2014, when Ukraine’s Maidan Coup ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych after he broke a promise to develop closer ties with the European Union.
Azarov told Russia’s TASS state news agency on Friday that he had no information about the car bomb, except that Zavorotniy had survived.
The explosion was the latest in a series of apparent assassination attempts inside Russia. On November 12, 2026, a Russian Air Force colonel was killed when an explosive device detonated beneath his car in Shushary, near St. Petersburg. The incident came less than three months after another Russian serviceman, Major Sergei Sechkov, was killed in a car explosion in the same area on August 27.
In February 2026, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, deputy head of Russia’s military intelligence agency, was shot and wounded inside his residential building in Moscow. Russian investigators opened an investigation into the attack, while Moscow accused Ukraine of involvement.
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