A senior Russian general was killed on Monday in Moscow after a bomb placed under his car exploded, the country’s investigative committee said in a statement, in what appeared to be the latest high-profile assassination of Ukraine’s opponents inside Russia.
The statement identified the officer as Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, who served as the head of the Russian General Staff’s army operational training directorate. Investigators said that they were looking into whether the bombing had been orchestrated by the Ukrainian intelligence services and that they had opened a criminal investigation.
The Security Service of Ukraine, known as the S.B.U., had no immediate comment on the bombing.
Images from the scene showed several damaged cars cordoned off by police officers and investigators. The explosion occurred early in the morning in a middle-class residential district in the south of Moscow.
Since the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, several senior Russian army commanders have been killed in targeted assassinations claimed by the Ukrainian special services.
In April, Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, the deputy head of the main operational department of the General Staff, was killed after a car bomb went off. In December 2024, Igor Kirillov, a general in charge of the Russian military’s nuclear and chemical weapons protection forces, died after an explosive device planted in a scooter detonated near the entrance to a residential building.
Also on Monday, Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency said it had attacked an airfield over the weekend in the Lipetsk region of Russia, near the Ukrainian border, and destroyed two fighter jets.
The local Russian authorities in Lipetsk have not commented about the reported attack, and the Ukrainian agency’s claim could not immediately be independently verified.
Kyiv has repeatedly targeted Russian airfields, including the one in Lipetsk, which is near Kursk. The Ukrainian campaign, often using attack drones, is aimed at blunting Moscow’s ability to keep bombing cities and towns in Ukraine.
Cassandra Vinograd contributed reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Ivan Nechepurenko covers Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the countries of the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
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