As Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff arrives in Moscow for talks to end the war in Ukraine, a car bomb has killed a high-ranking Russian general, Yaroslav Moskalik. After a string of similar bombings during the course of the war, defence analyst Nick Drummond examines how it was possible, and whether this is a shift to a new guerrilla campaign by Ukraine against Russia.

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Witkoff lands in Moscow - a bomb goes off