A senior Russian general, Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, was killed on Monday in southern Moscow after a bomb placed under his car detonated, authorities confirmed. Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched an inquiry into the “murder” of Sarvarov, who served as the head of the training department within the General Staff.
Russia's Investigative Committee, which examines major crimes, said it had opened a probe into the "murder" of Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the training department within the General Staff. The possibility that the attack was "linked" to "Ukrainian special forces" was among the lines of inquiry, it said.
Since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, Kyiv has been blamed for several attacks targeting Russian military officials and pro-Kremlin personalities in Russia and in Russian-controlled Ukrainian regions.
General Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy of the General Staff, was killed in a car blast near Moscow in April. In December 2024, Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian radiological, chemical and biological defence forces, was killed when a booby-trapped electric scooter exploded in Moscow, an attack claimed by Ukraine's SBU security service.
In April 2023, a Russian military blogger named Maxim Fomin died when a statuette detonated in a cafe in Saint Petersburg. Earlier, in August 2022, Daria Dugina, the daughter of ultranationalist thinker Alexander Dugin, was killed by a car bomb.