Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: In a significant development as the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict heads into its fourth year in February 2026, a senior Russian general was killed in a car blast on Monday, the media reported.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, which examines major crimes, said it had opened a probe into the “murder” of Lieutenant-General Fanil Sarvarov, 56, head of the training department within the General Staff. He was killed in southern Moscow after an explosive device placed under his car went off, investigators said in a statement.
The possibility that the attack was “linked” to “Ukrainian special forces” was among the lines of inquiry, it said.
Ukraine has not commented.
Since Russia launched a “special military operation” against Ukraine in February 2022, it has blamed the neighbor for multiple attacks targeting Russian military officials and pro-Kremlin personalities in Russia and in Russian-controlled Ukrainian regions.
General Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy of the General Staff, was killed in a car blast near Moscow in April.
In December 2024, Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian radiological, chemical and biological defense forces, was killed when a booby-trapped electric scooter exploded in Moscow, an attack claimed by Ukraine’s SBU security service.
A Russian military blogger, Maxim Fomin, was killed when a statuette exploded in a Saint Petersburg cafe in April 2023. And in August 2022, a car bomb killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of ultranationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin.
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