Directorate Deputy Chief - Lieutenant General
Unit: Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff, Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD)
Cargo ID: #1600
English Name: Yaroslav Yaroslavovich Moskalik
Russian Name: Москалик Ярослав Ярославович
Education: Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School; Military Academy of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces
Date of Birth: August 22, 1966 (age: 58 years)
Place of Birth: Unspecified
Date of Death: April 25, 2025 (via Car Bomb )
Place of Death: Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia
On Friday, April 25, at about 10:40 Moscow time, an explosion occurred near one of the residential buildings in Balashikha, Moscow Region. The fire engulfed a Volkswagen parked nearby at the moment when 58-year-old Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, was leaving the building. The high-ranking military officer was thrown back against the door by the blast wave. He received injuries incompatible with life. Preliminary, the explosion was caused by the detonation of an explosive device planted in the car. The Investigative Committee of Russia has already opened a criminal case under two criminal articles - 105 (“Murder”) and 222.1 (“Illegal trafficking of explosives”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Social Media: OK.ru
Previously Deployed: Syria, Ukraine (2014)
Awards:
Together with his wife Larisa, the head of the personnel service at the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, he raised a son Ivan, and several other children.
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</figure><hr><h2 data-sanitized-id="ignat-kuzin">Ignat Kuzin</h2><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/110176/2025/1600-s1.jpg" alt="Yaroslav Moskalik" loading="lazy" width="732" height="732" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>Ignat Kuzin, suspected of murdering deputy chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Yaroslav Moskalik, has been detained</p><p>According to the FSB, a Ukrainian intelligence agent bought a car and planted an IED in it. He parked the car near Moskalik's house. A criminal case has been opened under the articles "Murder" and "Illegal trafficking of explosives." It is known that 42-year-old Kuzin is a native of the Ukrainian city of Sumy.</p><figure data-kg-thumbnail="https://topcargo200.com/content/media/2025/04/1600-s2_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular">
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</figure><p>Ignat Kuzin said he was recruited by Ukrainian special services in 2023. He moved into the house where Moskalik lived in November last year - since then he has been following him</p><p>According to Kuzin, he was supervised by a certain Vadim from the Kyiv region since April 2023. It was on his instructions that Kuzin left for Moscow in September of the same year. In November 2024, six months before the car explosion, he moved into an apartment in the same building where Moskalik lived. His housing was paid for. In February, he bought a car. All this time, he was being monitored by a supervisor - using his coordinates, Kuzin found a hiding place from which he took a camera and a bomb. The detainee claims that the explosion was carried out by his supervisor, who was on the territory of Ukraine.</p>
