A Russian general has been killed in a car bomb explosion in Moscow, officials say (file photo). -AP
A Russian general is dead after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in Moscow, investigators say.
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Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, died from his injuries, Svetlana Petrenko, official spokesperson for Russia's Investigative Committee said.
"Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of enquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services," Petrenko said.
Russian news outlets reported the car exploded in a parking lot on Moscow's Yaseneva Street with the driver inside.
Ukraine's security service claimed responsibility for a similar attack against a high-ranking Russian soldier in December 2024.
Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military's nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed by a bomb hidden on an electric scooter outside his apartment building a day after Kyiv levelled criminal charges against him. His assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, was also killed.
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