{"id":363289,"date":"2025-12-22T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363289\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:02:09","slug":"investigators-probing-ukraine-link-as-moscow-car-bomb-kills-russian-general-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363289\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators probing Ukraine link as Moscow car bomb kills Russian general | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, <\/p>\n<p class=\"contributors-list contributors-list--byline\">By Al Jazeera and News Agencies<\/p>\n<p>Published On 22 Dec 202522 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">A car bomb in southern Moscow has killed a senior Russian general, investigators have said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee reported on Monday that it had opened a probe into the \u201cmurder\u201d of Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the training department within the General Staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">The general was killed when an explosive device detonated underneath his car in the south of the Russian capital, the investigators, responsible for examining major crimes, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Russian news outlets reported that a car exploded in a parking lot on Yaseneva Street, with the driver inside, at approximately 7 a.m. Moscow time (04:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cInvestigators are pursuing numerous lines of enquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,\u201d Svetlana Petrenko, spokesperson for the committee, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Ukraine claimed responsibility for a similar attack in December 2024. 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 outside his apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, By Al Jazeera and News Agencies Published On 22 Dec 202522 Dec 2025 Click here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-363289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}