This is the moment a controversial colonel in Ukraine’s secret services who today switched sides to Russia survived a car bomb assassination attempt in Moscow.
A video shows the moment his truck explodes, leaving him with injuries to his arms and legs, for which he is being treated in the hospital.
Former Ukrainian SBU lieutenant colonel Vasily Prozorov, 48, was seen walking towards his vehicle before the explosion.
He was later seen in photographs sitting in the back of the car, injured. His car was destroyed by the explosion, but his life is not in danger, according to reports.
A source from the emergency services confirmed to Russian media that Prozorov was injured after the detonation of the explosive device.
A controversial colonel in Ukraine’s secret services who today switched sides to Russia survived an assassination attempt in Moscow. In the photo: The moment when the car belonging to former lieutenant colonel of the Ukrainian SBU, Vasily Prozorov, exploded today
Prozorov appeared wounded after the attack. His car was destroyed by the explosion but his life is not in danger, according to reports
The anonymous source said the explosion occurred when Prozorov started his car outside his home in northern Moscow.
Russian state media quoted a source close to Prozorov – also anonymous – as saying he was alive and that his life was not in danger.
“He’s alive, everything is fine,” the source said.
Prozorov is considered a traitor in his homeland.
He moved to Russia “a few years ago” and has reportedly been cooperating with Russian intelligence services since 2014.
RIA Novosti claimed on Friday that he had given an interview to the agency days before the apparent assassination attempt.
It quoted him as saying that he used to work for the SBU in the Zaporizhzhia region of southern Ukraine before moving to kyiv in April 2014 and “contacted representatives of the Russian security services and suggested cooperation.”
Prozorov is seen after today’s car explosion. Reports suggest he was injured
Footage shows Prozorov being carried away on a stretcher after the assassination attempt.
“From the first days I started working, providing information to the security services of the Russian Federation,” he said.
In March 2019, Prozorov gave a press conference in Moscow saying he had moved for “ideological reasons.”
Recently, he touted the Putin regime’s playbook by telling the media that Ukraine was to blame for the Crocus City Hall concert hall shooting that left 145 people dead.
There is no compelling evidence that kyiv is responsible. The attack has been claimed by terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State, which US intelligence has assessed as true.
Despite this, Prozorov said: “I am absolutely sure that there are Ukrainian fingerprints on what happened at Crocus City Hall.”
“It is a pattern of action invented by Ukraine.
Prozorov is considered a traitor in his homeland. He moved to Russia “a few years ago” and has reportedly been cooperating with Russian intelligence services since 2014.
“As for the behavior of the terrorists, professionals will immediately say that it is more like a special operation.”
Referring to the West saying the concert hall attack was the work of an ISIS affiliate, Brozorov said they were nothing like terrorist attacks “carried out by Islamic fundamentalists, whose ultimate goal is to die fighting infidels.”
He insisted: “In this case, it was a sabotage operation.”
Several officials who have collaborated with Moscow have been the target of assassination attempts in occupied Ukraine during the two-year Russian invasion.