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Russian general killed in car bomb in Moscow
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This handout photo released by the Russian Investigative Committee on December 22, 2025, shows the site of a car bomb in southern Moscow. Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the training department within the General Staff, was killed in Moscow on December 22, 2025 after an explosive device placed under his car went off, investigators said in a statement. (Handout / RUSSIAN INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE / AFP)
A Russian general was killed in a car bomb in Moscow, Russia’s investigative committee says.
Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Russian General Staff’s army operational training directorate, was killed, the committee says.
The committee says that one possibility being investigated is that the bomb was planted by Ukrainian special services.
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