Another Russian general has been assassinated, this time in a car bombing in Moscow.
According to Sputnik and other news outlets, Russia’s Investigative Committee said Lt. General Fanil Sarvarov died on Monday morning after an explosive device planted under a car detonated.
Sarvarov, 56, was the head of the armed forces’ operational training department, the committee added.
The BBC reports that, “One theory being investigated was that the bomb was planted with the involvement of Ukrainian intelligence services. Ukraine has not commented.”
Sarvarov died in the hospital as a result of his injuries, the Russian Investigative Committee said, adding it had opened a murder investigation, as well as illegal trafficking of explosives.
Investigators were seen congregating in a parking lot near an apartment block in southern Moscow.
According to Russian media, Sarvarov previously took part in combat operations during the Chechen wars in the 1990s and early 2000s, and also led operations in Syria betw…
