A Russian general staff officer is killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow.

BarcelonaA Russian general staff officer was killed Monday in a car bomb attack in Moscow, according to the Russian Investigative Committee (IRC). The victim was Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the military operations directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. The IRC spokeswoman, Svetlana Petrenko, said that several theories about the assassination are being considered, one of which links the attack to Ukrainian intelligence services. "The IRC's main investigative directorate has opened a criminal case for murder and illegal trafficking of explosives," she stated. Russian media reported that the explosion occurred in a parking lot near an apartment building. The IRC posted a video on Telegram of the detonated car, showing traces of the victim's blood. This is not the first time that high-ranking Russian military officers and other prominent pro-Kremlin figures have been killed in similar circumstances since the start of the war in Ukraine. Among the most prominent is Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov, the victim of an attack—claimed by Ukrainian special services—with a bomb on a scooter as he left his home in Moscow in December 2024. In April 2025, another high-ranking Russian officer, Yaroslav the General Staff, also died in a car bombing near his residence. Shortly afterward, Zelensky praised the Ukrainian intelligence service without mentioning the car bomb.

Six months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion, another car bomb exploded in Moscow. killed Daria Dugina, daughter of Aleksandr DuginAn ultranationalist philosopher close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Another bomb, this time placed in a St. Petersburg cafe, assassinated Maksim Fomin, one of Russia's most influential military bloggers, a staunch supporter of the war in Ukraine.