Azarov's Former Adviser, Who Was Killed In A Bombing In Moscow, Turned Out To Be A Russian Intelligence Officer
- 13.11.2026, 15:30
Zavorotny served in Military Unit No. 33949, which is part of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
Sergey Zavorotny, a former adviser to Ukraine’s ex-Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, whose car was blown up in Moscow’s Chertanovo district on the morning of November 13, is an officer of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
This was noted in a report by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, as pointed out by “Vazhnye Istorii”. Specifically, the document indicated that Zavorotny served in military unit No. 33949, which is part of the SVR.
According to leaked data examined by “Important Stories,” 72-year-old Zavorotny lived in Moscow at 2 Kirovogradskaya Street. The car exploded a five-minute drive from that location. The leaks also confirm that Zavorotny owned the blown-up 2020 Toyota Fortuner SUV. The Russian Investigative Committee confirmed that Zavorotny was injured in the explosion. He was taken to a hospital in Moscow, the agency’s press service noted. According to “112,” the man has fallen into a coma, and doctors are performing surgery on him. A criminal case has been opened under the articles on attempted murder (Articles 30 and 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to “Kommersant,” a magnetic mine was attached to the underside of Zavorotny’s vehicle. It was detonated remotely. The explosion had a power equivalent to 300–500 grams of TNT. Furthermore, as the publication notes, the criminal case may later be reclassified as a terrorist attack (Article 205 of the Criminal Code), and if it turns out that the person who planted the mine was a Russian citizen, he faces charges of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code).
Sergey Zavorotny worked for *Komsomolskaya Pravda* in Latin America and later in the State Duma. From 2010 to 2014, he served as press secretary to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. In 2018, he published the book *Yanukovych Gave In. The State Department Accepted It: How Russia Lost Ukraine.” After 2014, he called the Euromaidan a coup d’état, accused the West of external control over Ukraine, and headed the news outlet “Antifascist.”
The bombing of Zavorotny’s car was the second such incident in two days. The day before, on November 12, a car was also blown up in St. Petersburg; the driver was presumably Colonel Andrei Khodykin, deputy commander of the 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army for military-political affairs. He died at the scene.