US EditionRussian General Killed in Moscow Car Bombing
- On Monday, December 22, 2025, Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Russian Armed Forces' Operational Training Directorate, was killed by a car bomb in southern Moscow, investigators said.
- Amid a string of similar attacks, Russia's Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for murder and illegal trafficking of explosives, pursuing a Ukrainian special services link while Ukraine has not commented.
- Video from the scene shows a heavily damaged white Kia, while investigators and forensic teams cordoned off the parking lot, reviewed CCTV and interviewed witnesses as Sarvarov was taken to hospital and later died of his injuries.
- Russia's Investigative Committee said it opened a probe into the 'murder' and deployed forensic experts, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin was informed and noted recent high-profile deaths may heighten Russia–Ukraine tensions.
- This killing follows other high-profile assassinations, including Gen. Igor Kirillov's scooter bomb in December 2024 and the April car bombing of Yaroslav Moskalik, with prosecutors charging a man over Moskalik's death.
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Even before Christmas 2024, a high-ranking Russian soldier died from an explosive bomb attack. Now the events are repeated. The investigators have a certain suspicion.
MichaelSavage.com – Top Russian General on Ukraine’s ‘War Crime List’ Assassinated in Moscow Car Bombing
Russian investigators are considering a link to Ukrainian military intelligence after a top Kremlin general was killed by a car bomb in Moscow on Monday morning. Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, former commander of Russian forces in Syria and the head of operational training for the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, died in an…
The hazards are on the way, including forensic tests and explosives. The “witnesses are being questioned” and the images of surveillance cameras are being “analysed”.
Once again a high-ranking member of the Russian army was killed in Moscow. According to state investigators, an explosive device exploded under the car of Lieutenant General Fanil Sarwarov. The killed man had therefore been responsible for the operative training of soldiers.
The Russian government accused Ukrainian intelligence of having participated in the attack, but this country has not spoken out about it.
Fanil Sarwarov became the third Russian general to be eliminated in Moscow.
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