Russian authorities announced the death of a general in the Russian army as a result of a bombing that targeted his car in Moscow today, Monday.
The Russian Federal Investigative Authority stated that the deceased general is the head of the Directorate of Operational Training of the Russian General Staff, General Vaniel Sarvarov.
The authority added that the explosive device was placed under the car and that preliminary information suggests the involvement of Ukrainian intelligence in the assassination, explaining that it formed a committee to investigate the incident.
According to "Russia Today", media reports indicated that the explosion that occurred this morning damaged several vehicles in the southern part of Moscow, and resulted in the driver sustaining serious injuries.
Sarvarov, born in 1969, is one of the prominent military figures in the Russian army, having held sensitive field positions during the conflict in the Prigorodny region between Ossetia and Ingushetia, and participated in a number of military missions in Syria.
Sarvarov has received several high government decorations and awards and has held the position of head of the Directorate of Operational Training in the General Staff since 2016, a pivotal position linked to planning and combat readiness of the Russian armed forces.
Repeated Accusations
Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022, Kyiv has been repeatedly accused of carrying out attacks against Russian figures and military officials, both inside Russia and in the areas occupied by Moscow in Ukraine.
In August 2022, a car explosion killed Daria Dugina, daughter of the nationalist thinker and Kremlin supporter Alexander Dugin.
In April 2023, Russian military blogger Maxim Fomin was killed by an exploding statue in a café in Saint Petersburg.
In December 2024, the commander of Russian Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, Igor Kirillov, was killed in an electric bike explosion parked near the building he was residing in Moscow, in an assassination operation claimed by the Ukrainian Security Service.
In the past April, the Deputy Head of the General Directorate for Operations in the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, General Yaroslav Moskalik, was killed in a car explosion near Moscow.
