A Russian army general was killed Monday morning (22) in a car explosion in the south of Moscow, the Kremlin Investigative Committee announced. Russian authorities suspect Ukrainian special forces, among others, of being behind this attack.
The victim is Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the operational training department of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. He occupied one of the key positions in the military hierarchy and actively participated in the war against Ukraine.
Sarvarov was driving his car, a Kia Sorento, at the time of the attack. According to investigators, an explosive device had been placed under the car and exploded as it left a parking lot in the Russian capital at around 6:55 a.m. (12:55 a.m. Brasilia time).
“The windows shook. We felt it was an explosion. This is the price of war,” said a 70-year-old retired train driver who lives near the scene of the attack. Russian authorities released a video showing the crashed car with blood stains on the driver’s seat.
Investigators indicated that they were studying several hypotheses, including the involvement of Ukrainian special services, as one of the clues pointing in this direction. According to the authorities, an investigation was opened for “homicide” and “trafficking in explosives”.
Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was 56 years old and a career soldier born in the Urals, a Russian region bordering Asia, made up of several mountains. He participated in the war in Chechnya in the 1990s and 2000s, in the Russian intervention in Syria in 2015 and 2016, in addition to acting in the conflict with Ukraine since 2022.
Accusations against kyiv
Since the start of the Russian offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, kyiv has been repeatedly accused of carrying out targeted attacks against Russian military figures and authorities, both in Russia and in areas occupied by Moscow in Ukraine.
In August 2022, a car bomb killed Daria Dugina, daughter of ultranationalist ideologue Alexandre Dugin. In April 2023, Russian military blogger Maxim Fomin was killed in a figurine explosion in a St. Petersburg cafe.
Most recently, in April, General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, was killed in a car bomb attack near Moscow.
In December 2024, the commander of the Russian Chemical, Radiological and Biological Defense Forces, Igor Kirillov, was killed in the explosion of an electric scooter also in Moscow, an attack claimed by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
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