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Russian Chief of Staff killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow

Initially, the Russian Instruction Committee has attributed the attack to Ukrainian intelligence.

MOSCOW (Russian Federation), 22/12/2025.- Russian investigators work near a destroyed car after a blast from an explosive device planted beneath the vehicle in a residential area of Moscow, Russia, 22 December 2025. The head of the Russian General Staff's Operational Training Directorate, Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, was killed in a car explosion in Moscow, the Russian Investigative Committee reported. (Rusia, Moscú) EFE/EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV
Russian authorities are investigating the attack. Photo: EFE

Russian Army Chief of Operations Fanil Sarvarov died on Monday in acar bomb attack in southern Moscow, according to the Russian Instruction Committee(CIR).

The explosion occurred in a parking lot 150 metres from the General's home and, according to the newspaper Kommersant , the cause of the explosion was a magnetic mine attached to the bottom of the car.

CIR spokeswomanSvetlana Petrenko said investigators are assessing several versions of the murder, one of which holds the Ukrainian intelligence services responsible.

Sarvarov was born in 1969 and has been trained at the Kazan Tank Academy, the Armoured Military Academy and the Russian General Staff Military Academy.

Mirotvorets entered the Ukrainian website in 2022, where "enemies of Ukraine" appear.

Following the outbreak of the war, Ukraine has claimed responsibility for similar attacks and killed, among others, Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of operations of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, and Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov, head of radiological, chemical and biological defense in Russia.

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