A Russian general was killed Monday after a bomb exploded under his car in Moscow, officials said.
Russian investigators said they were looking into whether Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov was assassinated by Ukrainian intelligence services.
NBC News has asked the Ukrainian government for a response.
Sarvarov, 56, was head of the operational training directorate of Russia’s armed forces general staff.
On Monday morning “an explosive device planted under the bottom of a car was detonated” on Yasenevaya Street in the south of the city, Russian Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement.
“Investigators are pursuing various theories regarding the murder,” Petrenko said. “One of them is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence agencies.”
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