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Pjotr Sauer

DARK SECRETS: Russian general killed by car bomb in moscow investigators say - The Real Truth

Investigator at the scene of car bomb attack in Moscow
An investigator at the scene where Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was killed by a car bomb in Moscow on Monday. Photograph: Russia’s investigative committee/Reuters

A Russian general has been killed after an explosive device detonated beneath his car in what Moscow described as a likely assassination carried out by Ukrainian intelligence services.

Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov, the head of the operational training directorate of the Russian armed forces’ general staff, died of his injuries, a spokesperson for Russia’s investigative committee said in a statement.

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