Eliminated Russian general Moskalik reported on Ukraine war to Putin

Lieutenant General of the Russian Army, Yaroslav Moskalyk, who died last week due to a car explosion in the Moscow region town of Balashikha, was responsible for preparing reports on the war against Ukraine for Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Andrei Belousov.

This was reported by Radio Svoboda, citing an obituary published in the Ministry of Defense’s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. The obituary was highlighted by Novaya Gazeta. Europe.

Moskalik held the position of deputy chief of operational management at the General Staff. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he led the shift of the General Staff’s Combat Management Group. The obituary noted that the general was monitoring the situation on the front and reporting it to Putin and the defense minister.

From 2015 to 2021, Moskalyk was a member of the Russian Ministry of Defense delegations to the Minsk Contact Group’s working group on security issues and participated in resolving matters concerning the conflict in southeastern Ukraine. Journalists also previously identified him among the participants in high-level meetings in the Normandy format in 2015 and 2019, involving the presidents of Russia and Ukraine.

• On April 25, a car exploded in Balashikha, Moscow Region, resulting in the death of General Moskalik from the Russian Ministry of Defense’s General Staff.
• On the evening of Monday, April 28, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared the results of reports from the heads of the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Security Service of Ukraine. The president was briefed on the "elimination of individuals from the senior command structure of the Russian Armed Forces."