The moment Ukrainian traitor who defected to Russia is blown up by a car bomb in a botched assassination that left him with wounds to his arms and legs

This is the moment a controversial colonel in Ukraine’s intelligence services who defected to Russia today survived a car bomb attack in Moscow.

A video shows the moment his SUV explodes, leaving him with arm and leg wounds, for which he is being treated in hospital.

Former lieutenant colonel of the Ukrainian SBU, Vasily Prozorov, 48, was seen walking to his vehicle before the explosion.

He was later seen in pictures sitting in the back of the car, injured. His car was destroyed in the blast, but his life is reportedly not in danger.

An emergency source confirmed to Russian media that Prozorov was wounded after the explosive device was set off.

Prozorov was shown injured after the attack. His car was destroyed in the blast, but his life is reportedly not in danger

The anonymous source said the explosion happened when Prozorov was starting his car outside his home in northern Moscow.

Russian state media quoted a source close to Prozorov – also anonymous – as saying he was alive and that his life was not in danger.

‘He is alive, everything is fine,’ the source was quoted as saying.

Prozorov is considered a traitor in his homeland.

He moved to Russia ‘a few years ago’, and has been cooperating with the Russian intelligence services since 2014, it is said.

RIA Novosti said on Friday that he had given an interview to the agency days before the apparent assassination attempt.

It quoted him as saying he used to work for the SBU in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region before moving to Kiev in April 2014 and “contacted representatives of Russian security services and suggested cooperation”.

Prozorov is seen after the car explosion today. Reports indicate that he was injured

Footage showed Prozorov being taken away on a stretcher after the assassination attempt

“From the first days, I started working on providing information to the security services of the Russian Federation,” he said.

In March 2019, Prozorov held a press conference in Moscow, saying he was moving for ‘ideological reasons’.

Recently, he trumpeted the Putin regime’s playbook by telling the media that Ukraine was to blame for the shootout at the Crocus Town Hall concert venue, where 145 died.

There is no evidence that Kiev is responsible. The attack has been claimed by terrorists associated with the Islamic State, which American intelligence services have assessed to be the case.

Despite this, Prozorov said: ‘I am absolutely sure that there are Ukrainian fingerprints on what happened at Crocus Town Hall.

“It is a pattern of action that was invented by Ukraine.

Prozorov is considered a traitor in his homeland. He moved to Russia ‘a few years ago’ and has been cooperating with the Russian intelligence services since 2014, it is said.

‘As for the behavior of the terrorists, professionals will immediately say that it looks more like a special operation.’

Referring to the West saying the concert hall attack was an ISIS-linked work, Brozorov said it was nothing like terrorist attacks ‘carried out by Islamic fundamentalists whose ultimate goal is to die fighting infidels’.

He insisted: ‘In this case it was an act of sabotage.’

A number of officials who have cooperated with Moscow have been targeted by assassination attempts in occupied Ukraine during Russia’s two-year invasion.