He was familiar with General Moskalik, who was killed in the same area.

“The explosive is TNT. That it was in the cabin is nonsense, he would have been torn to pieces,” said the ASTRA interlocutor.
According to him, the bomb was installed under the bottom of the car. The incident is being handled by the military prosecutor’s office and the FSB. At the same time, FSB officers worked in civilian clothes at the site of the explosion. 

Also, the fact that the name Damir sounded at the site of the explosion was heard by one of the eyewitnesses, whom ASTRA spoke to. The fact that Davydov became the victim of an assassination attempt is also confirmed by The Insider with reference to the SBU. 
 
Davydov is a colonel who headed the Department of Supply of rocket and artillery ammunition of the Russian Ministry of Defense GRAU (military unit 64176), which is responsible for the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Russian army. 

According to the Ukrainian Evocation project, Davydov grew up in the closed city of Penza-19, where his father, Rafael Davydov, worked at the Start software, which produced nuclear missiles. 

In open data it is also said that he previously commanded the Central Test Technical Bureau, belonging to the 51st Arsenal of the Main Rocket and Artillery Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Vladimir region.

In the same area of Balashikha, less than 1 km from the site of the current explosion, in April 2025, an improvised device explosion killed Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik. According to an ASTRA source, Davydov and Moskalik were friends.

Davydov, apparently, has long been a target of the Ukrainian special services — his name is also included on the website of the Ukrainian project “The Book of Executioners”.

“He was directly involved in the planning and organization of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022,” it said.