Overview
- The blast, which hit the Knyaze-Volkonskoye-1 garrison on Tuesday, killed communications training battalion commander Lt. Col. Kuzmenko and injured several others.
- Russian and Ukrainian outlets say a bomb hidden in a mailbox likely targeted Major General Azatbek Omurbekov, whose condition remains unconfirmed.
- A Khabarovsk court said Thursday that three suspects were remanded, including one in absentia, in a case it linked to “destabilisation of government bodies.”
- There is no official confirmation of the blast or attribution, and Ukraine has not commented, while a Russian Telegram channel says authorities imposed an information blackout.
- Omurbekov led the 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade during the Bucha occupation and he and the unit were later sanctioned by the United States and the European Union for alleged human rights abuses.