Car Bomb Kills Russian Ammunition Chief Damir Davydov With 400-Gram TNT Blast Near Moscow
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Updated · Kyiv Post · Jun 9
Car Bomb Kills Russian Ammunition Chief Damir Davydov With 400-Gram TNT Blast Near Moscow
3 articles · Updated · Kyiv Post · Jun 9
Summary
The Insider identified the Balashikha car-bomb victim as Damir Davydov, the Russian Defense Ministry official overseeing missile and artillery ammunition supplies to the front.
Around 5:30 a.m., Davydov’s BMW X3 exploded near a high-rise in the military-heavy Aviatorov district; Russian authorities confirmed the blast and opened a criminal case before naming him.
Early reports put the device at about 400 grams of TNT and said the attack occurred less than 1 kilometer from the spot where Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a similar bombing in April 2025.
The killing is the fourth of a Russian lieutenant general inside Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, prompting the FSB to tighten security around senior officers.
No public evidence has linked Kyiv to the bombing, and Ukrainian authorities had not commented by publication.