A Russian general was killed after an explosive device detonated under his car in what Moscow described as an assassination carried out by Ukraine’s intelligence services.
Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, was driving along a Moscow street at 7 am when his car exploded, said Svetlana Petrenko, the spokesperson for Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation’s top criminal investigation agency. Sarvarov, 56, died from his injuries. “Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of inquiry regarding the murder, Petrenko said. Safarov had heading the training department for nine years and involved in military operations in Syria, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Ukraine has not yet claimed responsibility for the high-profile attack.
Several Russian officers have been killed in various attacks blamed on Ukraine’s intelligence forces. Just over a year ago, another senior Russian military official, the chief of the military's nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, and his assistant in an explosion of a bomb hidden on an electric scooter outside his apartment. Ukraine’s Security Service, SBU, claimed responsibility for the attack. An Uzbek national was charged with killing the military official upon orders of Ukraine’s intelligence forces.
Another senior military official, Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the General Staff, was killed in an explosion of a bomb placed in his car parked near his apartment.
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