{"id":571656,"date":"2026-08-27T12:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=571656"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:51:11","slug":"military-pilot-presumed-killed-in-car-explosion-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/military-pilot-presumed-killed-in-car-explosion-in-st-petersburg","title":{"rendered":"Military Pilot Presumed Killed In Car Explosion In St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A car exploded on Kolpinskoye Highway in St. Petersburg at around 10 a.m. on Aug. 27. The explosion occurred when the car began to move.<\/p>\n<p>A lieutenant colonel in the Russian Air Force and Air Defense Forces and his wife were in the car at the time of the explosion, Fontanka reports. The man died at the scene and the woman was hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegram channel 112 reports that the lieutenant colonel who died was a military pilot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_571638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-571638\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-571638\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-39.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-39-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-39-768x646.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-39-475x400.jpg 475w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-39-950x800.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-571638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from the scene: Telegram channels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_571637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-571637\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-571637\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-35.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-35-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-35-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-35-495x400.jpg 495w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-27_12-39-35-990x800.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-571637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from the scene: Telegram channels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-571656-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18130901404215.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18130901404215.mp4\">https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18130901404215.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car exploded on Kolpinskoye Highway in St. Petersburg at around 10 a.m. on Aug. 27. The explosion occurred when the car began to move. A lieutenant colonel in the Russian Air Force and Air Defense Forces and his wife were in the car at the time of the explosion, Fontanka reports. The man died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":571655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a9016a3993b2.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Military Pilot Presumed Killed In Car Explosion In St. Petersburg"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[143122],"class_list":["post-571656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident","tag-rossija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}