{"id":382524,"date":"2026-08-27T11:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382524\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:37:31","slug":"car-explosion-in-st-petersburg-kills-russian-military-officer-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382524\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Explosion in St. Petersburg Kills Russian Military Officer, Reports Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"p-rc_b6323b079fc233c9-105\" data-path-to-node=\"1\">A Russian military lieutenant colonel was killed in a car explosion in St. Petersburg, the local news outlet Fontanka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fontanka.ru\/2026\/08\/27\/76610184\/\" title=\"reported\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The blast occurred around 10 a.m. local time near a supermarket in the Shushary neighborhood. The\u00a0officer\u2019s wife was also in the car and badly injured, Fontanka reported.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Investigators later <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/gsuskrf_spb\/9751\" title=\"confirmed\" rel=\"nofollow\">confirmed<\/a> the death of one person and hospitalization of another but described the incident only as a\u00a0\u201cvehicle fire,\u201d not an explosion. They added that a criminal probe was underway.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Russia has accused Ukraine of carrying out several assassinations of military officers since the full-scale invasion. 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