Moment when a Ukrainian traitor who defected to Russia is blown up by a car bomb during a failed assassination attempt, leaving him with arm and leg wounds
This is the moment a controversial colonel of the Ukrainian secret services, who transferred to Russia today, survived an assassination attempt by a car bomb in Moscow.
A video shows his SUV exploding, leaving him with arm and leg wounds for which he is being treated in hospital.
Former Ukrainian SBU lieutenant colonel Vasily Prozorov, 48, was seen walking to his vehicle before the explosion.
He was later seen in photos sitting injured on the back of the car. His car was mangled in the explosion, but reports say his life was not threatened.
An emergency services source confirmed to Russian media that Prozorov was injured after the explosive was detonated.
A controversial colonel of Ukraine’s secret services, who sided with Russia today, survived an assassination attempt in Moscow. In the photo: the moment when the car of former lieutenant colonel of the Ukrainian SBU Vasily Prozorov exploded today
Prozorov was injured after the attack. His car was mangled in the explosion, but reports say his life was not threatened
The anonymous source said the explosion occurred when Prozorov started his car outside his home in northern Moscow.
Russian state media quoted a source close to Prozorov – also anonymous – as saying he was alive and his life was not in danger.
“He is alive, everything is fine,” the source said.
Prozorov is considered a traitor in his homeland.
He moved to Russia “a few years ago” and has been working with Russian intelligence services since 2014, it is reported.
RIA Novosti said Friday that he had given an interview to the agency days before the apparent assassination attempt.
It quoted him as saying he had worked for the SBU in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhia region before moving to Kiev in April 2014 and “contacted representatives of the Russian security services and proposed cooperation.”
Prozorov is seen today after the car explosion. Reports said he was injured
Images showed Prozorov being taken away in a stretcher after the assassination attempt
“From the first days I started working, I provided information to the security services of the Russian Federation,” he said.
In March 2019, Prozorov gave a press conference in Moscow in which he said he was moving for “ideological reasons.”
He recently trumpeted the Putin regime’s playbook by telling the media that Ukraine was responsible for the Crocus City Hall concert hall shooting that left 145 people dead.
There is no hard evidence that Kiev is responsible. The attack was claimed by terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State, according to US intelligence.
Despite this, Prozorov said: “I am absolutely sure that there are Ukrainian fingerprints on what happened in Crocus City Hall.
‘It is a pattern of action devised by Ukraine.
Prozorov is considered a traitor in his homeland. He moved to Russia “a few years ago” and has been working with Russian intelligence services since 2014.
“As for the behavior of the terrorists, professionals will immediately say that it looks more like a special operation.”
Referring to the West that the attack on the concert hall was the work of an ISIS affiliate, Brozorov said it was nothing like terrorist attacks “carried out by Islamic fundamentalists, whose ultimate goal is to die in the fight against infidels.”
He insisted: ‘In this case it was a sabotage operation.’
A number of officials who cooperated with Moscow have been the target of assassination attempts in occupied Ukraine during Russia’s two-year invasion.