A onetime spokesman for a pro-Russian former prime minister of Ukraine was wounded by a car bomb in Moscow on Friday (November 13), Russia's Investigative Committee said.

Sergei Zavorotniy, once a top aide of Mykola Azarov, who served as Ukraine's prime minister from 2010 to 2014, was hospitalized after a car exploded on a street in Chertanovo, a district of the Russian capital.

It was the second car bombing in Russia in successive days. Moscow has blamed Ukraine for previous assassinations of senior military officials and people linked to Russia's war effort.

There was no immediate comment from Ukraine on Friday.

Ren TV and the 112 Telegram channel both reported that Zavorotniy had lost his left arm in the attack, and that he was in hospital with a concussion, rib fractures and other injuries.

Izvestia newspaper was told by two unnamed sources that Zavorotniy fell into coma.

Zavorotniy's former boss Azarov fled to Russia in 2014, when Ukraine's Maidan Revolution ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych after he broke a promise to develop closer ties with the European Union.

Azarov told Russia's TASS state news agency on Friday that he had no information about the car bomb, except that Zavorotniy had survived.

The explosion was the latest in a series of apparent assassination attempts inside Russia. On Thursday a member of the Russian military was killed in a car bomb in St Petersburg.

Ukrainian sources have claimed responsibility in some cases, while denying others. Kyiv has not commented on Thursday's attack.

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VIDEO SHOWS: SCENE OF CAR EXPLOSION IN SOUTHERN MOSCOW / DESTROYED CAR / INVESTIGATORS COLLECTING EVIDENCE / LOCAL RESIDENT COMMENTING ON INCIDENT

SHOWS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (NOVEMBER 13, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. CAR DESTROYED IN EXPLOSION

2. VARIOUS OF BLAST SCENE CORDONED BY POLICE

3. CAR FRAGMENTS ON TARMAC

4. VARIOUS OF INVESTIGATORS EXAMINING CAR

5. POLICEMAN STANDING

6. LOCAL RESIDENT LOOKING OUT HER WINDOW

7. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) LOCAL RESIDENT, NINA (NO LAST NAME GIVEN), SAYING:

"Something exploded but it was not clear what exactly. I was at home and I felt like a bomb went off. So I went outside to have a look."

8. CAR FRAGMENT ON GRASS AS POLICE PLACE CORDON AROUND SCENE

9. CAR DESTROYED BY EXPLOSION

10. VARIOUS OF BLAST SCENE