The late Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov
By agency reports
A Russian general has been killed in a car blast in Moscow, the Russian capital.
According to the Associated Press (AP), the incident occurred in the early hours of Monday when an explosive device detonated underneath his car causing the blast and killing the general.
This is the third such killing of a senior military officer in a year. Investigators suspect Ukraine hand behind the incident.
Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov was head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff.
“He succemebed to his injuries in the blast,” said Svetlana Petrenko, the spokesperson for Russia’s Investigative Committee, said.
“Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of enquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,” Petrenko said.
It would be recalled that last year in December, a similar incident had claimed the life of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces.
A bomb hidden on an electric scooter outside his apartment building went off killing him and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov. An Uzbek man was arrested and charged with Kirillov’s killing.
Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the General Staff, was also killed in a car blast near Moscow in April this year.
