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A car bomb in southern Moscow has killed a senior Russian general, investigators have said in a statement.
Russia’s Investigative Committee reported on Monday that it had opened a probe into the “murder” of Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the training department within the General Staff.
The possibility that the attack was “linked” to “Ukrainian special forces” was among the lines of inquiry, it said.
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