Butcher of Bucha ‘blown up’ by bomb planted inside mail box in Russian village

Major-General Azatbek Omurbekov ‘narrowly survived’ explosion (Picture: AFP)

A Russian general branded the ‘Butcher of Bucha’ has been targeted by a bomb explosion at his military garrison.

Major-General Azatbek Omurbekov, 42, commanded troops to commit barbaric mass rapes and murders during Vladimir Putin’s initial invasion of Ukraine.

The blast in Russia’s Khabarovsk region at the village of Knyaz-Volkonskoe-1, 5,000 miles east of Moscow, allegedly ‘killed a colonel’ and left several others wounded.

The condition of Omurbekov, believed to be the target of th...