Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was killed by an explosive device placed under his car this morning. He became the latest high-profile Russian to be killed since Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
But since 2022 there have been a number of such executions.
December 22, 2025 , Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov is killed by a bomb that explodes under his Kia Sorento south of Moscow. Sarvarov was the head of the Russian General Staff's army operational training directorate. Russian investigators say they suspect Ukrainian special services were involved, although there was no immediate comment from Kiev.
April 25, 2025 , Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, 59, is killed by a car bomb near Moscow. Moskalik was deputy director of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff.
December 17, 2024 , Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who was the chief of Russia's nuclear, biological and chemical defense troops, is killed outside a Moscow apartment building along with his assistant when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter explodes.
November 13, 2024 , a car bomb kills a Russian soldier in Sevastopol in Russian-annexed Crimea. A Ukrainian security source identifies him as Valery Trankovsky, a Russian naval captain whom Kiev has accused of war crimes for ordering missile attacks on civilian targets.
October 4, 2024 , Andrei Korotkiy, an employee at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, is killed in a car bomb attack. Ukrainian military intelligence calls him a collaborator and war criminal.
December 6, 2023 , Illia Kyva, a former Ukrainian lawmaker considered by Kiev to be a traitor, is shot dead near Moscow.
On July 11, 2023 , Russian military officer Stanislav Rzhitsky, who had commanded a submarine in the Black Sea and was on a Ukrainian blacklist of suspected war criminals, was shot dead while jogging in the southern city of Krasnodar.
April 2, 2023 , Vladen Tatarsky, a pro-war Russian military blogger, is killed by a bomb hidden in a statue that had been given to him by a woman in a cafe in St. Petersburg.
August 20, 2022 , Darya Dugina, the daughter of a pro-war nationalist figure, is killed by a car bomb in the Moscow region.
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