Putin Military Leader Wiped Out in Hometown Humiliation

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Vyacheslav Prokofiev / via REUTERS A senior Russian military colonel has been killed in a suspected car-bomb attack in Vladimir Putin’s hometown of St. Petersburg. The blast struck around 7 a.m. Thursday in the Slavyanka neighborhood of the city’s Pushkinsky district. The bomb had been attached to the underside of the car and exploded after the officer had driven approximately 330 yards from his courtyard, according to Russian outlet Fontanka . Russia’s Investigative Committee confirmed that a serviceman had been killed and opened a murder investigation, but did not publicly identify the…

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