Russia’s State Investigative Committee has said that Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvanov was killed in the blast; the bomb was planted under a car, the BBC reports.
Sarvanov, 56, was the head of the army’s operational training department and died of his injuries in hospital. Investigation teams have been dispatched to the scene. Sarvanov’s car was parked outside an apartment building in southern Moscow. Photos show a white car with the door torn off as a result of the explosion. One of the investigation’s versions is that the bomb was planted by Ukrainian intelligence services. Ukraine has not commented.
According to Russian media reports,
Sarvanov previously participated in combat operations in Ingushetia and Chechnya,
and also led operations in Syria in 2015-2016.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there have been several attacks on military officials in Moscow. In April, General Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a bomb attack, while General Igor Kirillov was killed in December 2024. Sources in Ukraine told the BBC that Kirillov was killed by the Ukrainian security service, but this has not been officially confirmed.
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