A Russian general was killed by a car bomb in southern Moscow on Monday, Russian investigators said, adding that they suspected Ukrainian special services could have been behind the attack.
The bomb exploded under the Kia Sorento driven by Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Russian General Staff's army operational training directorate, as he left a parking space at 06:55 Moscow time.
Russia's State Investigative Committee said that Sarvarov died as a result of his injuries.
The investigators published a video showing the wrecked car, with blood visible on the driver's seat.
The committee said that one of the versions being investigated is that the bomb was planted by Ukrainian special services. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Russian court jails eight men for life over Ukrainian truck bomb attack
A Russian military court last month sentenced eight men to life in prison over their purported role in a deadly Ukrainian truck bomb attack on the bridge that links southern Russia to Crimea, in a ruling celebrated by war bloggers.
Ukraine's SBU domestic intelligence agency claimed responsibility for the attack, which in October 2022 ripped through part of the 19-km (11.8-mile) bridge, killing five people and damaging what was a key supply route for Russian forces fighting in Ukraine.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, and the bridge was a flagship project for President Vladimir Putin, who opened it for road traffic by driving a truck across in 2018.
The driver of the truck carrying the explosives was killed in the attack, as were four civiliansin a passenger car nearby, and a section of the bridge partially collapsed.
The eight men convicted on terrorism charges were accused of being part of an organized criminal group that helped Ukraine carry out the bombing.
Vasyl Malyuk, the head of Ukraine's SBU, said in 2023 that the explosives had been concealed in metal cylinders hidden inside large rolls of plastic film. The SBU had used others in the plot but had kept them in the dark about what was really going on, he said.