An explosion occurred in Shushary. An unnamed colonel was killed. A member of his family was also injured.
The explosion occurred around seven in the morning in the Slavyanka neighborhood, near the Lenta store and the Tatneft gas station.
The alleged victim of the explosion in St. Petersburg could have been the chief navigator of the 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army, Lobodin.
An explosion in Shushary, St. Petersburg, may have killed Dmitry Lobodin, chief navigator of the 6th Army of the Russian Air Force and Air Defense Forces. This was suggested by a report by TV channel 78, which claimed the deceased was the chief navigator of the 6th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces. The publication subsequently removed the mention of the position from its Telegram channel.
The suspect in the bombing of the colonel’s car in Slavyanka is a 31-year-old St. Petersburg resident. According to Fontanka, he has already left Russia, flying to Turkey.
A bomb designed to blow up the colonel was delivered from the Baltic states to the Leningrad region, according to Fontanka.
The colonel who died in St. Petersburg was survived by a wife and two children. This coincides with Colonel Lobodin’s status.
The Ukrainian project “Book of Executioners” states that Dmitry Lobodin, Colonel and Chief Navigator of the 6th Army, Military Unit 09436 of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces, took part in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According to leaked data reviewed by ASTRA, he is registered in Shushary, in a residential complex built by the Russian Ministry of Defense, approximately 300 meters from the explosion site.
An ASTRA correspondent managed to reach Lobodin’s son and wife by phone, but they refused to speak. Other potential relatives of Lobodin did not respond to messages.
According to another version, Colonel Andrei Khodykin was blown up. He is the deputy commander of the 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army for military-political affairs and also serves in military unit 09436, the 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces. He is also listed in the “Book of Executioners” and is registered in the same residential area. ASTRA reached his son, but he declined to answer the reporter’s questions.
The information has not been confirmed.
ASTRA has determined that today’s explosion occurred just 600 meters from the site of the August military bombing , in which the deceased’s wife was also injured, both having their legs blown off. The victim is believed to be Major Sergei Sechkov, who served in the 332nd Separate Guards Red Banner Helicopter Regiment, which the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine accused of launching missile and bomb strikes against civilians in Ukraine in the Slobozhansky direction (districts of the Sumy and Kharkiv regions).
