MOSCOW.- A Russian general died Monday morning after an explosive device exploded under his car in Moscow. and investigators said the attack It could be the work of Ukraine, the third assassination of a top military commander in a year.
The Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, Head of the Directorate of Operational Training of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, He died of his injuries, said the official spokeswoman for the Russian Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko.
The bomb exploded under the white Kia Sorento that Sarvarov was driving as he left a parking lot at 6:55 a.m. Moscow time (12:55 a.m. in Argentina) that Monday.
“Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of inquiry in connection with the murder. One of them is this.” The crime was orchestrated by the Ukrainian secret services“explained Petrenko.
The investigative committee published a video of the destroyed vehicle, with visible blood on the driver’s seat and a torn off door.
Petrenko added that investigators were collecting forensic evidence, interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance camera footage.
Until now There was no official comment from Ukraine. Myrotvorets, an unofficial Ukrainian website that provides a database of people considered war criminals or traitors, has updated its entry on Sarvarov to note that the 56-year-old has been “eliminated.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this President Vladimir Putin was immediately informed of Sarvarov’s murder.
Sarvarov fought in the campaigns of the Russian army in the North Caucasus, including that of Chechnya in the 1990s, says his official biography on the Defense Ministry portal. Also commanded Russian forces in Syria in the year 2015-2016.
Several Russian military officers and prominent supporters of Moscow’s war have been killed in Ukraine during the nearly four-year conflict, and Ukrainian military intelligence has claimed responsibility for several of the attacks.
A little over a year ago, on December 17, 2024, Lt. Gen Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Army’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his building. Kirillov’s assistant also died. The Ukrainian security service claimed responsibility for the attack.
An Uzbek man was quickly arrested and accused of killing Kirillov on behalf of the Ukrainian security service.
Putin described the murder of Kirillov as a “serious mistake” by the Russian security authorities, They point out that they should learn from it and improve their efficiency.
But in April another Russian military commander, Lieutenant General, arrived. Yaroslav Moskalik, Deputy Director of the Main Operations Department of the General Staff, was killed by an explosive device planted in his car parked near his home on the outskirts of Moscow. A suspect was quickly arrested.
Moscow also blamed Ukraine for several bombings and other attacks in Russia.
Days after the assassination of Moskalik, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said he had received a report about it from the head of Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service the “liquidation” of senior Russian military commanders, adding that “justice inevitably comes.” although he didn’t mention Moskalik’s name.
Agencies AP, AFP and Reuters
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