Alleged Moscow Car Bomber ‘Confesses’ to Working for Ukraine: Russian Authorities

Published on July 26, 2024

A Russian national has “confessed” to having carried out a car bombing in Moscow earlier this week—at Kyiv’s behest—that allegedly targeted a Russian military officer, according to the Russian authorities. “During interrogation, [Yevgeny] Serebryakov reported on … the preparation of the car bombing ordered by the Ukrainian Security Service,” Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for Russia’s official investigative committee, said on July 26. “From Turkey, Serebryakov was going to Ukraine, where he was promised citizenship,” Ms. Petrenko said in remarks to Russia’s TASS news agency. On July 24, Russian media reported that a car bomb had gone off in a northern district of Moscow, injuring two people....