MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian general was killed Monday morning after an explosive device went off under his car in southern Moscow, investigators said.
The head of the Operational Training Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, died from his injuries, said Svetlana Petrenko, official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia.
“Investigators are pursuing numerous versions of the murder investigation. One of them is that the crime was organized by the Ukrainian special services,” Petrenko said.
Russian media reported that at approximately 7 a.m., a car with a driver exploded in a parking lot on Yasenev Street in Moscow.
Ukraine's security service claimed responsibility for a similar attack on a senior Russian soldier in December 2024. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, commander of the armed forces' nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces, was killed when a bomb hidden on an electric scooter exploded near his home, a day after Kyiv brought criminal charges against him. His assistant Ilya Polikarpov was also killed.
