Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, who was killed in a car bomb explosion in Moscow this morning, is the latest prominent Russian figure to be assassinated since Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Here is the long trail of excellent attacks for which Moscow accuses the Ukrainian services.
– 25 APRIL 2025: Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, 59, is killed by a car bomb near Moscow. Moskalik was deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff.
– DECEMBER 17, 2024: Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, is killed along with his assistant outside a Moscow apartment building when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter explodes.
– NOVEMBER 13, 2024: a bomb planted under a car kills a Russian soldier in Sevastopol, in Crimea annexed by Russia. A Ukrainian security source identifies him as Valery Trankovsky, a Russian navy captain whom Kiev has accused of war crimes for ordering rocket attacks on civilian targets.
– OCTOBER 4, 2024: Andrei Korotkiy, an employee of 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 a war criminal.
– DECEMBER 6, 2023: Illia Kyva, a former Ukrainian parliamentarian considered a traitor by Kiev, is shot dead near Moscow.
– JULY 11, 2023: Russian military officer Stanislav Rzhitsky, who had commanded a submarine in the Black Sea and was on Ukraine’s blacklist of suspected war criminals, is shot dead during a morning jog 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 figurine given to him by a woman in a St. Petersburg cafe.
– AUGUST 20, 2022: Darya Dugina, daughter of a pro-war nationalist very close to Putin, is killed by a car bomb in the Moscow region.