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24-12-2025
MOSCOW: A Russian general has been killed in a car bombing in Moscow, officials have said.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov died on Monday morning after an explosive device planted under a car detonated.
Sarvarov, 56, was the head of the armed forces’ operational training department, the committee added.
It said one theory being investigated was that the bomb was planted with the involvement of Ukrainian intelligence services. Ukraine has not commented.
Sarvarov died in hospital as a result of his injuries, the committee said, adding it had opened an investigation into murder and illegal trafficking of explosives.
Investigators have been sent to the scene, in a car park near an apartment block in the south of Russia’s capital.
Images from the area show a badly damaged white car with the doors blown out, surrounded by other vehicles.
According to Russian media, Sarvarov previously took part in combat operations during the Ossetian-Ingush conflict and the Chechen wars in the 1990s and early 2000s, and also led operations in Syria during 2015-2016.
Vladimir Putin was informed of Sarvarov’s death immediately, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a number of military officials and high-profile individuals have been targeted in the Russian capital.
Darya Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of a prominent nationalist figure and Putin close ally, was killed in a suspected car bombing in 2022.
Gen Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car bomb attack last April, while Gen Igor Kirillov died in December 2024 when a device hidden in a scooter was detonated remotely.
A Ukrainian source later told media that Kirillov was killed by Ukraine’s security service, though this was never confirmed on the record. As a matter of policy, Ukraine never officially admits or claims responsibility for targeted attacks.
On 25th April, a senior Russian general was killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow.
Russia’s Investigative Committee (SK), the main federal investigating authority in the country confirmed Gen Yaroslav Moskalik died when a Volkswagen Golf car exploded after an improvised explosive device stuffed with pellets went off.
Local media reported that the car was parked next to the general’s house in the eastern suburb of Balashikha and exploded as he walked past it.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has blamed Ukraine for the attack, saying Kyiv “continues its involvement in terrorist activities inside our country”. Ukraine has not commented. Moskalik represented Russia’s General Staff in talks with Ukraine in Paris in 2015, which resulted in the Minsk agreements set up to end the war between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatist forces that started in 2014.
According to the Kremlin website, he joined the Russian contingent led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Kremlin aide and former Russian ambassador to the US, Yuri Ushakov, for those ceasefire talks.
Videos and photos circulating on Telegram on Friday show a car in flames outside a block of flats.
As a matter of policy, Ukraine never officially admits or claims responsibility for targeted attacks such as the one which killed Gen Moskalik but unnamed sources within Ukrainian security services have previously told media that they have been behind similar assassinations, such as the killing of Gen Igor Kirillov in December 2024. Named officials, though, never went on the record. (Int’l News Desk)
