A former Ukrainian security service (SBU) officer was injured on Friday April 12 in an incident involving his vehicle in Moscow, state news agencies TASS and Ria Novosti reported. The victim, Vassili Prozorov, was injured in the hands and legs, a security source who requested anonymity told Ria Novosti, but his life was not in danger. Another source in the emergency services said he was injured when an explosive device went off under his SUV near his place of residence in the north of the Russian capital.
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From our correspondent in Moscow,
In the images made public by a Telegram channel reputed to be close to the security services, we see a silhouette in the parking lot of a building courtyard entering a black car, then smoke. The Investigative Committee opened criminal proceedings for “ an incident ” having ” damaged a vehicle and injured its owner » ; without specifying whether there had indeed been an explosion. Without saying either if the man lived in this middle-class neighborhood, very far from the center, to the north of the capital Russian.
The man in question, Vassili Prozorov, gave a press conference in Moscow in March 2019. He was presented as a defector from the secret services Ukrainian. Vassili Prozorov claimed to have worked for the SBU between 1999 and 2018 and provided information to Russia from April 2014, the period after the annexation of Crimea and the start of the destabilization of Donbass. A choice made, he said, by “ ideological motivation “.
No comments from kyiv
The SBU then reacted by accusing him in particular of drinking excessively at work and of having “ sold » to the Russians. In a statement, the Ukrainian intelligence services also wrote: “ This monster must remember the fate of Judas. It’s a question of time “.
kyiv has not yet commented on this incident. Since the start of the assault on Ukraine at the end of February 2022, several assassinations or assassination attempts have targeted personalities on Russian territory supporting the Kremlin’s military offensive.