Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov, the head of the operational training directorate of the Russian armed forces\u2019 general Staff, died from his injuries, Svetlana Petrenko, official spokesperson for Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigators are pursuing numerous lines of inquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,\u201d Petrenko said.<\/p>\n
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An investigator at the scene where Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was killed by a car bomb in Moscow on Monday. Photograph: Russian Investigative Committee Handout\/EPA<\/p>\n
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
Ukraine\u2019s security service claimed responsibility for a similar attack against a high-ranking Russian soldier in December 2024.<\/p>\n
Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military\u2019s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was 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. I will bring you all the key updates on this story \u2013 and plenty of others \u2013 throughout the day.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/p>\n Tomahawks should go to Ukraine if Putin rejects proposal to end war, Lindsey Graham says<\/p>\n Speaking on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press on Sunday, US senator Lindsey Graham said the American team negotiating with Russia and Ukraine<\/a> to bring an end to the war are \u201coverestimating\u201d Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201cwillingness\u201d to end the conflict.<\/p>\n Graham, a South Carolina Republican and close Trump ally, suggested that Washington should intensify pressure on Moscow \u2013 including supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles \u2013 if Vladimir Putin refuses to accept a negotiated proposal.<\/p>\n Ukraine has been seeking Tomahawk missiles to carry out long-range strikes against Russia<\/a>, but without them has still been able to wage a successful campaign using its own drones and missiles against Russian military and strategic targets such as oil depots and refineries. Donald Trump told reporters last month that he was \u201cnot really\u201d considering supplying Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, but said he could change his mind in the future.<\/p>\n In his interview with NBC, Graham said \u201cgreat progress\u201d had been made by Kyiv, Washington and European leaders to come up with a proposal to end the war, adding that he wants European troops \u201con the ground\u201d and US security guarantees to Ukraine to prevent a \u201cthird invasion\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not going to evict every Russian out of Ukraine, understand that,\u201d the Senator said. \u201cI think Putin is going to continue to take the Donbas by force until we increase pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n Graham added:<\/p>\n We are going to be Lucy with the football if we don\u2019t watch it. We keep engaging Russia, we keep trying to lure Putin to the peace table and he rebuffs all of our efforts. <\/p>\n If (Putin) says no this time, here\u2019s what I hope president Trump will do: Sign my bill<\/a> that has 85 co-sponsors and put tariffs on countries like China who buy cheap Russian oil. <\/p>\n Make Russia a state sponsor of terrorism for kidnapping 20,000 Ukrainian kids. And most importantly, seize ships that are carrying sanctioned Russian oil like you\u2019re doing in Venezuela.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n A Ukrainian drone attack damaged two vessels and two piers and caused a fire in a village on the Black Sea coast in Russia\u2019s Krasnodar region, regional authorities said on Monday.<\/p>\n All crew on the ships at the Volna terminal on the Black Sea had been safely evacuated, the Krasnodar region\u2019s operational headquarters said in a post on Telegram. The damage led to a fire spreading up to 1,500 sq metres, authorities said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Russian general killed by car bomb in southern Moscow, investigators say<\/p>\n A Russian general was killed this morning after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow, investigators said<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov, the head of the operational training directorate of the Russian armed forces\u2019 general Staff, died from his injuries, Svetlana Petrenko, official spokesperson for Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee, said.<\/p>\n \u201cInvestigators are pursuing numerous lines of inquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,\u201d Petrenko said.<\/p>\n An investigator at the scene where Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was killed by a car bomb in Moscow on Monday. Photograph: Russian Investigative Committee Handout\/EPA<\/p>\n 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 Ukraine\u2019s security service claimed responsibility for a similar attack against a high-ranking Russian soldier in December 2024.<\/p>\n Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military\u2019s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was 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. I will bring you all the key updates on this story \u2013 and plenty of others \u2013 throughout the day.<\/p>\n