Car of director of drone manufacturing plant blown up near Yekaterinburg. He is in intensive care
The driver-bodyguard died.
A Mercedes car belonging to Vladimir Tkachuk, general director of "Uraldronzavod", exploded near Yekaterinburg. He was seriously injured.
Tkachuk's enterprise develops and produces "Upyr" FPV drones for the Russian army, and he himself is associated with the large pro-war Telegram channel "Повёрнутые на войне" (Obsessed with War) and previously personally demonstrated his UAVs to Vladimir Putin.
Tkachuk was in the passenger seat of the car. According to Mash, the driver-bodyguard died on the spot. A criminal case has been initiated regarding the explosion.
This is already the second assassination attempt in recent times on the heads of Russian enterprises in the UAV sector: on July 29, in Tula, an unknown assailant shot three times at the director of the company "Russian Air Transport Laboratory", Andrei Cherezov. He survived.