According to reports, the attack was carried out last night, and videos of the burning tanker have already appeared on social networks. According to that information, Averjanov, who is considered one of the close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was on board the affected ship, as well as his deputies.
Although it is claimed in some publications that seven people were injured in the attack and that two were killed, there is no official confirmation of these allegations for now. The Russian authorities have not yet commented on these claims.
Preliminary information indicates that the attack was carried out using drones that were allegedly launched from naval bases. However, even these details have not yet been unofficially confirmed.
Andrey Averyanov is known as a high-ranking Russian intelligence general who has been accused on several occasions of espionage abroad, sabotage, explosions and the use of drones on the territory of the European Union. He is also considered one of the GRU’s key men in charge of covert operations outside Russia.
Some sources link him to the sabotage and explosion of the plane in which the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was killed, as well as the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom.
All information about this attack is currently based on unofficial sources and posts on social networks, while official confirmations and details are still awaited.
(Vijesti.ba)
