A former Ukrainian security service (SBU) officer, Mr Vasily Prozorov, was injured today Friday in an “incident” with his car in Moscow, Russian news agencies TASS and Ria Novosti reported. Security camera footage shows one explosion when a man, said to be Prozorov, gets into his car and starts the engine.

The victim has injuries in the hands and feetaccording to the second agency citing a security source who asked not to be named.

Another emergency service source said Prozorov was injured when a bomb exploded under his vehicle near his home north of the Russian capital. The Investigative Committee, the body that conducts criminal investigations in Russia, confirmed that there was an incident in which “the car was damaged and the owner was injured”, but did not specify whether it was an explosion.

Another source close to Prozorov told Ria Novosti agency that his life is not in danger. “He’s alive, he’s fine,” she said.

Other reports say the explosion may have come from a “damage to a natural gas pipe.”

In March 2019 Vasily Prozorov gave a press conference in Moscow where he stated that defected and sided with Russia. He claimed at the time that he worked for the SBU between 1999-2018 but had been giving information to Russia since April 2014 “for ideological purposes”.

The SBU hit back, announcing that Prozorfo had been fired in 2018 for “incompetence”, accusing him of drinking too much on the job and “selling out” to the Russians. “This monster must remember the fate of Judas. It’s only a matter of time,” she had menacingly stated in her statement.

Kyiv has yet to comment on today’s incident.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine they have been in Russia many murders or attempts against persons that support the Kremlin’s military operations.