The Kremlin has responded after a car bomb in Moscow reportedly killed a Russian general.
Damir Davydov, the head of the Russian defence ministry’s missile and artillery wing, was reportedly killed in a car explosion in Balashikha at 5.30 am on Tuesday. Russian investigators have not yet named the victim of the bombing but opened an investigation into the attack.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there had been an explosion but that the details could not be disclosed while an investigation was ongoing.
“An explosion took place, but the details, as you understand, are not subject to disclosure in connection with the investigation that is underway,” Peskov said. “Of course, this is a matter for our special services.”
Ukraine has not issued a comment on his death so far, though Kyiv has claimed responsibility for several attacks on Russian generals since the start of Vladimir Putin’s war.
Another car bombing took place in southwestern Moscow, attempting to target an employee of a scientific production enterprise.
Investigators arrested two suspects, reporting that a teenage girl was told by unidentified people to pick up the bomb and handed it to a teenage boy who placed it on the car along with a GPS tracker, the committee said.
Major oil refinery in southern Russia on fire after Ukrainian attack, officials say
A huge fire broke out at Russia’s Afipsky refinery in southern Krasnodar after Ukrainian drone strikes overnight.
The regional operational headquarters said the blaze was a result of falling drone debris as defence systems were repelling an air attack.
It is one of the largest oil processing facilities in southern Russia, producing gasoline, diesel fuel, gas condensate distillates, heavy petroleum residues, and sulfur.
A gas pipeline was also damaged after drone debris had fallen in the residential private sector, the regional governor said, adding there were no casualties.
Several residents said the refinery was on fire following a Ukrainian attack, according to Telegram monitoring channel Exilenova-Plus.
The Afipsky refinery, which accounts for about 2% of Russia’s refining capacity, has previously been targeted by Ukrainian attacks.
Shweta Sharma11 June 2026 04:18
Ukraine strikes disrupt fuel supplies in Russian-held Crimea
Ukraine’s strikes on Russian logistics routes have disrupted fuel supplies in occupied Crimea, with authorities in Sevastopol suspending petrol rationing coupons after tanker trucks were unable to reach the city.
The governor of Sevastopol in Russian-held Crimea, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said that petrol rationing coupons could temporarily not be honoured.
It coincided with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky remarks that Kyiv’s long-running campaign targeting energy assets in Russia and the lands it annexed had proved its worth.
Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, long before Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, introduced rationing for fuel last month because of shortages in the peninsula.
“Unfortunately, oil tanker trucks were unable to come to the city tonight,” Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram, adding that priority for refuelling on Thursday would be given to public transport and utilities, emergency and government vehicles.
“I am addressing everyone: there is no point in lining up at… the gas stations tomorrow,” he said late on Wednesday, adding that existing fuel rationing coupons would be cancelled and new ones issued on Thursday.
Over two dozen Ukrainian drones were downed in the early hours of Thursday in a fresh attack on Sevastopol, the peninsula’s second-largest city and home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet, Razvozhayev later said on Telegram.
Shweta Sharma11 June 2026 04:09
Ukraine’s Flamingo long-range missiles hit targets deep inside Russia
Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo long-range missiles hit a major military factory in Russia, more than 900km from the front line, Volodymyr Zelensky said.
The factory in the city of Cheboksary, in the Chuvash Republic, used to supply components for Russian drones and missiles.
According to the Astra Online news outlet, the missile strike hit the VNIIR-Progress plant, which produces antennas for drones.
Oleg Nikolayev, the head of Chuvashiya, also confirmed the attack, reporting three injuries. He did not say whether the military plant was damaged.
Shweta Sharma11 June 2026 03:58
Watch: Tommy Robinson posts video with Elon Musk’s father in Moscow hotel
Bryony Gooch11 June 2026 03:00
Wagner mercenaries ‘guarding Russian tankers in English Channel’
Wagner group members guard Russia’s shadow fleet through the English Channel – report
Wagner is a state-funded private military once led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who oversaw an attempted coup against PutinBryony Gooch11 June 2026 02:00
In pictures: Panorama of the Defence of Sevastopol museum in Crimea ablaze
Firefighters extinguish a fire at the “Panorama of the Defence of Sevastopol” museum, which, according to local authorities, was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack
Bryony Gooch11 June 2026 01:00
Who is Putin’s ammunition chief killed in car bombing outside Moscow
Who is Damir Davydov? Putin’s ammunition chief killed in car bombing outside Moscow
Russian news outlets reported that Davydov was killed in an explosion in the Balashikha area on TuesdayBryony Gooch11 June 2026 00:00
Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Russia to ‘cause some trouble’
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has travelled to Moscow where he met with Elon Musk’s father, Errol.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has long been a supporter of Mr Robinson, with both men calling for people to take to the streets in response to the knife attack in Belfast.
Mr Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, shared a list of places where protests were said to be taking place at 7pm on Tuesday following the Belfast attack, saying: “The whole of the United Kingdom is hitting the streets tonight at 7pm following yet another invader attack on our people. ”
Mr Robinson posted a video of himself and Errol Musk, apparently filmed in a Moscow hotel, on Monday in which he says: “We are going to go and cause some trouble.”
Errol Musk reportedly attended the annual Kremlin-backed economic forum last week.
Asked by the Guardian why he had travelled to Moscow, Mr Robinson said: “I’ve come to see how this country got itself so well on to the straight and narrow and see the beauty of a civilised society here.”
“There are those who benefit from pushing Russia as an enemy but everyone laughs at those people now.”
Last week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Musk of “interfering in our politics” and “trying to whip up division” in the wake of the sentencing of the murderer of Henry Nowak.
Bryony Gooch10 June 2026 23:00
Residents in Crimea forced to ration gas after Ukrainian drone attacks
Residents in Crimea forced to ration fuel after Ukrainian drone attacks
Russia is facing almost daily Ukrainian attacks on its oil infrastructureBryony Gooch10 June 2026 22:00
Pictured: Drone view of port infrastructure, as Ukrainian forces struck several key facilities at the Russian-occupied port of Mariupol
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