Larisa Kozovaya16:40, 18.10.24

According to preliminary information, the driver of the car died.

A car, probably carrying Russian soldiers, exploded  in the center of occupied Luhansk . One person is known to have been killed so far.

This was reported by Astra, citing local residents. According to eyewitnesses, the explosion damaged a UAZ and a passenger car. It is noted that there were soldiers in the UAZ, and the driver of this car died.

Eyewitnesses on social media suggest that the explosion was caused by a grenade. However, the cause of the incident is unknown.

Photos and videos from the site of the explosion have also been released.

It was later revealed that a woman was also injured in the explosion. According to the investigative committee of the aggressor country, a criminal case has been opened, but under what article, it is not specified.

Updated at 16:40. According to the spokesman of the Ukrainian volunteer army “South” Sergey Bratchuk , one of the leaders of the headquarters of military unit 53847 of the Central Military District of the Russian Federation was killed in Lugansk.

“Our friends from temporarily occupied Lugansk have told us who was in the car that exploded today… Today, the chief of staff for the service of troops and security of the military service of military unit 53847 TsPO, Major Dmitry Vladimirovich Pervukha, was sent to Kobzon,” Bratchuk reported.

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