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Second car bomb to hit Russia in two days targets exiled Ukrainian political aide, media report

Reuters

MOSCOW, Nov 13 (Reuters) - ‌Russia's Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, ​said ‌on Friday that it had ‌opened an investigation into the explosion of a ‌car in Moscow that Russian media reported belonged to an exiled Ukrainian political aide.

Russian media ⁠reported the car belonged ‌to Sergei Zavorotniy, ⁠a onetime spokesman for former ​Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, who has been ​living in Russia since ​fleeing ‌Ukraine amid anti-government protests in ​2014.

Russian newspaper Kommersant reported ⁠that Zavorotniy was ‌hospitalised.

It is the ​latest in ​a series of apparent assassination attempts inside Russia. On Thursday, a member of the ‌Russian military was killed after the car he ‌was ​driving was blown up in St Petersburg, investigators said.

(Reporting by Reuters, Writing by Felix Light; ‌Editing by Alex Richardson)