Officials have reported that a car bombing in Moscow, Russia, has resulted in the death of a Russian general.
Russia’s Investigative Committee reported that Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov passed away on Monday morning when an explosive device hidden beneath a car exploded.
He is the third military officer to be killed in bomb attacks in the Russian capital during the past year.
The committee stated that Sarvarov, 56, was the leader of the operational training department of the armed forces.
One theory under investigation suggested that Ukrainian intelligence services were involved in planting the bomb. Ukraine has not made a statement.
Sarvarov passed away in the hospital due to his injuries, the committee stated, noting it had initiated an investigation into homicide and illicit arms trafficking.
Authorities have dispatched investigators to the location, in a parking area near a residential building in the southern part of Moscow.
Photos from the location depict a severely harmed white Kia Sorento with its doors torn off, encircled by additional cars.
Russian media reports that Sarvarov had previously engaged in combat during the Ossetian-Ingush conflict and the Chechen wars in the 1990s and early 2000s, and he also directed operations in Syria from 2015 to 2016.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that Vladimir Putin was promptly notified of Sarvarov’s passing.
After Russia commenced its extensive invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, several military personnel and prominent figures have been attacked in the Russian capital.
Darya Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of a well-known nationalist leader and a close associate of Putin, died in a suspected car explosion in 2022.
General Yaroslav Moskalik was murdered in a car bomb explosion last April, whereas General Igor Kirillov passed away in December 2024 when a device concealed in a scooter was triggered remotely.
A Ukrainian source subsequently informed the BBC that Kirillov was eliminated by Ukraine’s security service, although this was never officially verified. Ukraine officially does not acknowledge or take responsibility for targeted assaults as a matter of policy.
