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Posted on December 23, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 20, 2026
Two police officers were killed in a Moscow bombing near the site of a Russian general's assassination, with suspicions of Ukrainian involvement.
By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly
MOSCOW, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Three people were killed by a bomb on Wednesday in Moscow after two police officers approached a man acting suspiciously near the site where a senior general was killed two days ago by a car bomb that Russia said was planted by Ukrainian intelligence.
A string of Russian military figures and high-profile supporters of the war in Ukraine have been assassinated during the nearly four-year-old conflict; Ukrainian military intelligence has said it was responsible for a number of the attacks.
Russia's State Investigative Committee said that when two police officers approached a man who was acting strangely, they were killed by an explosive device, adding that a third person was also killed. It did not specify who the third person was.
It said it opened criminal cases under clauses dealing with the murder of law enforcement officers and the illegal trafficking of bombs.
Unofficial Russian Telegram news channels said the bomber was one of those killed and he detonated the bomb when approached by the officers. Reuters could not independently confirm those details.
The blast took place very close to where Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Russian General Staff's army operational training directorate, was killed on Monday.
Russia said it suspected Ukraine was behind the killing. There was no official comment from Ukraine.
Myrotvorets, an unofficial Ukrainian website that provides a database of people described as war criminals or traitors, updated its entry on Sarvarov to say the 56-year-old general had been "liquidated."
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Chris Reese and Thomas Derpinghaus)
A bomb threat is a warning that an explosive device may be present in a location, often leading to evacuations and investigations by law enforcement.
Law enforcement refers to the agencies and officers responsible for maintaining public order, enforcing laws, and preventing, detecting, and investigating crimes.
Military intelligence is the process of gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information related to foreign military forces and activities to support national defense.
An explosive device is a weapon designed to cause destruction through the rapid release of energy, often resulting in an explosion.
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