{"id":5880,"date":"2025-12-22T08:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5880"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:07:55","slug":"russian-general-killed-in-explosion-in-moscow-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5880","title":{"rendered":"Russian general killed in explosion in Moscow, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A Russian general has been killed in an explosion in Moscow, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee said Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov died on Monday morning after an explosive device planted under a car detonated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Sarvarov was the head of the armed forces&#8217; operational training department, the committee added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It said one theory being investigated was the involvement of Ukrainian intelligence services. Ukraine has not commented.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Investigators have been sent to the scene, reportedly in the south of Russia&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Russian media reported the explosion occurred in a car park near an apartment building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a number of military officials have been targeted in the Russian capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Gen Yaroslav Moskalik was <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8rg4mly3ygo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"noopener\">killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow in April<\/a>, while Gen Igor Kirillov died in December 2024 when a device hidden in a scooter was detonated remotely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A Ukrainian source later told the BBC that Kirillov was killed by Ukraine&#8217;s security service, though this was never confirmed on the record. As a matter of policy, Ukraine never officially admits or claims responsibility for targeted attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Russian #general #killed #explosion #Moscow #officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian general has been kil&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880"}],"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=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}