Car Explosion in Moscow Injures Former Aide to Ex-Ukrainian PM Azarov, Second Blast in Two Days
Photo: The HinduA car exploded on a street in the Chertanovo district of southern Moscow on Friday, November 13, 2026, injuring Sergei Zavorotniy, a onetime spokesman for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, Russian authorities and media reported. Russia's Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, said it had opened an investigation. The newspaper Kommersant reported that Zavorotniy was hospitalized. Ren TV and the 112 Telegram channel reported that he lost his left arm and suffered a concussion, rib fractures and other injuries. The Baza Telegram channel published a photo of a black car with a smashed windshield, doors and front bumper.
Azarov served as Ukraine's prime minister from 2010 to 2014 and fled to Russia in 2014, when the Maidan Revolution ousted President Viktor Yanukovych. Azarov told the TASS news agency he had no information about the blast except that Zavorotniy survived. It was the second car explosion in Russia in two days. On Thursday, November 12, a Russian military member was killed when his car was blown up in St Petersburg, investigators said.
CNN, the left-leaning outlet, gives the shortest account. Its headline and excerpt describe a former aide to a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician injured in southern Moscow, citing Russian authorities and calling it the second apparent attack in two days. The excerpt gives no injury details, Kommersant or Azarov's remarks. The New York Post, on the right, leads with a car bomb wounding the aide and calls it a bombing. It adds the lost arm, the Telegram photo, Azarov's TASS comment, the Maidan background and a note that Moscow has blamed Ukraine for earlier assassinations of officials and people linked to the war effort. Both sides agree on the location, the day and the two-day pattern, and both attribute the claims to Russian sources. The Hindu, an independent outlet, closely matches the others but stresses the St Petersburg blast and calls the victim an exiled aide.
How the sides differ Right sources add injury details, Azarov's TASS comment and Moscow's past accusations against Ukraine; left sources give a brief account citing Russian authorities; alternative sources stress the St Petersburg blast.
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CNN reports briefly that Russian authorities said a car explosion in southern Moscow injured a former aide to a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician, the second apparent attack in two days.
- The Times of IndiaEx-aide to Ukraine's former PM Azarov hurt in Moscow car bombing; probe underway
- France 24Russia strikes targets across Ukraine as Kyiv launches nearly 1,200 drones
The Hindu leads with the Investigative Committee's probe and Russian media reports naming Zavorotniy, an exiled former Azarov spokesman, and links the blast to Thursday's St Petersburg car explosion that killed a serviceman.
The New York Post calls it a car bombing and details Zavorotniy's reported injuries, Kommersant and Telegram sources, Azarov's TASS remarks, and Moscow's past blame of Ukraine for assassinations.