Russian suspected of blowing up military official's car in Moscow detained in Türkiye – video

A Russian man suspected of blowing up a military officer's car in Moscow was detained in Bodrum, Türkiye, on the morning of 24 July.

Source: Ali Yerlikaya, Turkish Minister of Internal Affairs, on Twitter (X)

Quote: "At 10:30 today, representatives of the Russian Interpol unit called the Turkish headquarters of Interpol/Europol and stated that ‘a person named Yevgeny Serebryakov, a Russian citizen who committed a car bomb attack in Moscow as a result of which two people were injured, has arrived in Türkiye on the Moscow-Bodrum plane’."

Details: Turkish security officials say the suspect is Yevgeny Serebryakov.

The man arrived at Bodrum Airport about 09:40. He was not detained there because he was not on Interpol's International Search Database (e-ASF). He was later detained in Bodrum.

Background: A Toyota Land Cruiser was blown up near a residential building in Sinyavinskaya Street in north Moscow on the morning of 24 July. Russian media later reported that the car belonged to a man with the same name as Andrei Torgashov, Deputy Head of the Russian Defence Ministry's Satellite Communications Department.

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