Car Bomb Severely Injures Exiled Pro-Kremlin Ukrainian Official In Moscow

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Car Bomb Severely Injures Exiled Pro-Kremlin Ukrainian Official In Moscow A targeted assassination attempt via car bombing has once again rocked Moscow. This time, the…

A targeted assassination attempt via car bombing has once again rocked Moscow. This time, the "pro-Kremlin" target survived, in what authorities are calling an attempted murder case and act of terrorism.

A onetime spokesman to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov is said to be serious condition Friday in a local hospital, after narrowly surviving an explosion beneath his SUV in the south of the city.

The man has been identified as 72-year old Sergei Zavorotny. After the blast, reportedly the result of a magnetic bomb placed beneath the vehicle, he was quickly given first aid by passersby on the side of the road.

After formally leaving politics, Zavorotny has long worked as a journalist and commentator. Local reports suggest he's in very bad shape after barely making it out of the blast.

He was Prime Minister Azarov's press aide in Kyiv until 2014. BBC notes, "But when pro-Kremlin Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was toppled from power, Azarov fled Kyiv for Russia and tried unsuccessfully to set up a government in exile."

Zavorotny - seen as a close Azarov confidant - has been sought by Ukrainian security services ever since:

Only the day prior, a Russian colonel was killed in another explosion in St Petersburg. The blasts suggest that Ukrainian intelligence is once again ramping up assassination and sabotage efforts inside Russia.

This adds to a growing list of high profile assassinations related to the Ukraine war. To review of a partial list of some of the most high profile killings:

Throughout the course of the war there's been a string of these mysterious assassinations on Russian soil involving car and even cafe bombs.

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