Is The Liquidation Of A General In Moscow A Signal From Ukrainians To Putin?
2- 23.12.2025, 9:57
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A severe blow to the Kremlin cadres.
The explosion of a car on Yaseneva Street in Moscow that killed Russian general Fanil Sarvarov is undoubtedly a targeted assassination attempt: a magnetic mine attached to the bottom of the car went off. The question is who is behind it, writes Bild.
The list of suspects is headed by the Ukrainian security services, which have previously made assassination attempts on individual Russians, especially those involved in the war against Ukraine. Experts are well aware that Ukrainians prefer to blow up their victims because it is more reliable: bombs can be detonated remotely. Everything else (shooting, poisoning or staging an accident) requires too much proximity between the perpetrator and the victim - and therefore too high a risk.
Another question is why Sarvarov was targeted. There are several dozen lieutenant generals in the Russian army. Sarvarov was not directly involved in the war in Ukraine and did not command troops there. He was in charge of military training. In addition, judging by his old Kia car and living in a communal apartment in a "paneled" neighborhood, the officer had no career in corruption.
A terrorism expert at King's College London, Peter Neumann, believes that if Ukrainians are behind the assassination attempt, the plan may be to destabilize the Russian General Staff and society:
"The message is: we will get you all. And for all Russians: we can move the war to Moscow at any moment. [...] Such assassination attempts - in addition to the targeted murder of an officer who was responsible for training highly qualified military personnel at the highest level - have several other effects: destabilization among Kremlin personnel, decomposition within Russian society, and a signal that Russians will gain nothing by trying to establish relations only with the Americans, leaving the Ukrainians aside."