A senior Russian naval officer has been killed in a car bombing in occupied Crimea – the latest in a series of targeted attacks on Russian military personnel.Russian investigators said an unnamed serviceman was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated on Wednesday in the port city of Sevastopol – the primary headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet – and that the killing was being treated as terrorism.

A Russian Black Sea fleet commander has been killed in a car bomb explosion in Crimea, it has been reported. Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of the occupied peninsula, said that a military officer was in a car that exploded in the street in the city of Sevastopol on Wednesday morning.

A Russian naval officer has been killed in a car bombing in occupied Crimea, according to reports. A bomb was planted under a car which blew up and killed the Russian serviceman in the city of Sevastopol on Wednesday, in what a Kyiv security source said was a Ukrainian hit on the official they accused of war crimes.