Kateryna Chernoval00:58, 27.04.25

In particular, he chose targets for strikes.

General Yaroslav Moskalyk, who was eliminated in Russia, was engaged in regular planning, coordination, and preparation of reports on strikes on Ukraine using missiles and drones.

This was reported by military observer, coordinator of the “Information Resistance” group, Colonel Kostyantyn Mashovets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook . According to him, he solved “such delicate issues as choosing a target, arguing the feasibility of its destruction, detailed planning and assigning the appropriate deployment of forces and means.”

It was this general who was “at the origins” of the Russian attacks on Kryvyi Rih, Sumy, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and other Ukrainian cities, says Mashovets:

“It was from him, in fact, that what later turned into strikes with “shaheeds”, cruise and ballistic missiles on densely populated neighborhoods of peaceful Ukrainian cities began.”

According to the columnist, the fatal “encounter” with the exploding car for Moskalyk was neither accidental nor caused by an “internal Russian factor.”

“This ‘torso’ in stripes accurately and guaranteedly knew and realized what it was doing and what its relationship was to the killing of the civilian population of Ukraine, including children, in Ukrainian cities,” he continued. 

In addition, this general was considered as a candidate for the position of head of the so-called “National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation,” the colonel says. This structure is intended, among other things, to manage interagency and coalition groupings of troops.

“In my opinion, it is a completely “legal” and legitimate target. Moreover, it is obvious and very likely that it is a primary and priority target for “defeat” by Ukrainian special services. Apparently, this general himself understood that sooner or later, the mass murders of the civilian population of Ukraine, which are carried out precisely at his “initiation”, will end for him with just this kind of “meeting”,” – summed up Kostyantyn Mashovets.

Liquidation of Moskalyk

On April 25, Russian General Yaroslav Moskalyk was killed in Balashikha, near Moscow . As the deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff was passing by, his car exploded. 

The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Ukraine was allegedly involved in this . Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that this general was known to Ukrainian special services since his time working in the Minsk Contact Group.

(C)UNIAN 2025