{"id":204956,"date":"2025-12-22T10:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204956\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:51:07","slug":"russian-general-killed-in-moscow-car-bomb-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204956\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian general killed in Moscow car bomb \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/russia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/russia\/\">Russian<\/a> general was killed after a bomb exploded in his car in Moscow, according to investigators who pointed suspicion for the assassination at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ukraine-crisis\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ukraine-crisis\/\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Lieut Gen Fanil Sarvarov, who was in charge of the operational training department in the Russian General Staff, died from injuries sustained when the device planted under his car detonated early on Monday, the Investigative Committee said in a Telegram statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It opened a murder investigation and said the involvement of Ukrainian special services in the killing was one potential theory being examined. Ukraine has not commented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This is the third time in the past 12 months that top Russian officers involved in the invasion of Ukraine have been killed in bomb attacks in Moscow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In April, Maj Gen Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the main operations directorate for Russia\u2019s General Staff, was killed when a car bomb detonated outside an apartment building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In December last year, a device planted in a scooter outside a Moscow apartment building killed Lieut Gen Igor Kirillov, head of Russia\u2019s radiological, chemical and biological defence forces, and his assistant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The assassination came a day after Ukraine\u2019s SBU security service had accused Lieut Gen Kirillov of ordering the \u201cmassive use\u201d of banned chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops in the country\u2019s east and south. \u2013 Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior Russian general was killed after a bomb exploded in his car in Moscow, according to investigators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,9688],"class_list":["post-204956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ukraine-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}