Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya tweeted about the detention of Russian Evgeny Serebryakov, suspected of blowing up a military jeep in Moscow.
According to Turkish authorities, Serebryakov flew from Moscow to Bodrum today on the morning flight, which At the moment he was not wanted. His car was stopped on the street and forced to get out at gunpoint.
The Investigative Committee believes that Serebryakov was the one who at night, around 02:28 Moscow time, planted explosives on the bottom of a Russian military jeep in the north of Moscow, on Sinyavinskaya street. It was caught on surveillance cameras. The explosion occurred in the morning, around 06:30, when a military man and his wife got into a car. The man's feet were torn off.
Officially, law enforcement agencies did not disclose the identity of the victim. According to Kommersant and Moskovsky Komsomolets, 49-year-old Andrei Torgashov “served in the GRU and was responsible in his unit for communications.” The “Agency” found in leaked databases that in 2016 Torgashov, as a senior officer in the direction, received income in military unit 45807, registered in the GRU building complex on Khoroshevskoye Shosse in Moscow.
At the same time, the Astra telegram channel claimed , that we are talking about another military man with the same name — the deputy head of the military satellite communications unit No. 33 790. Russia Today, RIA Novosti and the Moscow region channel 360 subsequently reported that they had reached Torgashov, the deputy head of the military radio center and his wife. Both said they knew nothing about the jeep bombing.