{"id":5878,"date":"2025-12-22T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:03:41","slug":"russian-general-killed-by-car-bomb-in-moscow-investigators-say-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5878","title":{"rendered":"Russian general killed by car bomb in Moscow, investigators say | Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A Russian general was killed on Monday morning after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov, the head of the operational training directorate of the Russian armed forces\u2019 general Staff, died from his injuries, said Svetlana Petrenko, official spokesperson for Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cInvestigators are pursuing numerous lines of enquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,\u201d Petrenko said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Russian news outlets reported that a car exploded in a parking lot on Moscow\u2019s Yaseneva Street with the driver inside at approximately 7am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Ukraine\u2019s security service claimed responsibility for a similar attack against a high-ranking Russian soldier in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military\u2019s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/17\/lieutenant-general-igor-kirillov-russian-general-killed-moscow-explosion-chemical-weapons\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">killed by a bomb hidden on an electric scooter<\/a> outside his apartment building a day after Kyiv levelled criminal charges against him. His assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, was also killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>More details soon \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Russian #general #killed #car #bomb #Moscow #investigators #Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian general was killed o&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}