Senior Putin general blown up in car bombing in Moscow after bungling son ‘posted his number plate on social media’
A SENIOR Russian general was blown up after the war chief’s bungling son reportedly exposed his whereabouts by posting a picture of his dad’s car registration on social media.
The car, thought to contain Lieutenant General Damir Davydov, was firebombed in Moscow on Tuesday, killing the 57-year-old Vladimir Putin crony instantly.
War boss Davydov was reportedly pulled from the flaming wreckage of a BMW X3 before being pronounced dead at the site of the huge explosion.
His identity has not yet been officially confirmed.
Davydov was thought not to own a BMW, but a social media post, reportedly from the general’s son Rafael, shows the war chief’s son posing next to that exact car.
It seems to match the vehicle in the video of the dramatic explosion.
The social media post may have betrayed the general’s location to those who wanted him dead.
Reports suggest that assassins targeting Davydov used the car numberplate, clearly visible in his son’s social media post, to track him down.
Initial reports said the dead war chief was 62, but Davydov is thought to be 57.
He headed up the Kremlin’s defence ministry’s missile and artillery wing.
Davydov supplied deadly weapons to the flailing Russian forces on the front lines.
The huge explosion rocked the Moscow suburb of Balashikha on Tuesday morning reportedly had the power equivalent of up to 500 grams of TNT.
Dramatic video showed the vehicle bursting into flames from its boot and back seats, before rolling into a parked car.
Another car bomb was reportedly found and destroyed in south-west Moscow by Russian authorities.
An investigation has been launched into the suspected assassination.
Ukrainian authorities have yet to comment on the attack.
The blast was less than a mile from where Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car bombing last year.
The top Putin war chief, 59, was taken out by a remote-controlled car bomb as he walked towards a Volkswagen near Moscow.
The embarrassing security slip-up comes as paranoid Putin moved his daughters into his fortress palace, fearing assassination attempts.
Maria Vorontsova, 41, and Katerina Tikhonova, 39, are hunkering down in Mad Vlad’s highly guarded forest palace complex with their dictator dad.
The Valdai complex on the Black Sea is guarded by dozens of air defence systems, making it one of the most secure locations in Russia.
The ageing tyrant also ordered urgent checks on Russia‘s complex web of surveillance cameras, fearing it could be hacked by his enemies and betray his movements.
