Gen Moskalik had been the deputy head of the main operational directorate of the military's General Staff. He died after walking past the car parked outside his house in the suburb of Balashikha. The FSB said Kuzin had rigged the car with a homemade explosive device and the bomb had then been set off remotely from Ukraine.

The Russian general died in a car bombing in the Russian city of Balashikha on Friday, according to authorities, with news of the blast breaking just before US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow.