🔗 Share this article Following the Venezuelan-affiliated Oil Tanker 'Pursued' by the US Coast Guard Yi Ma Image source The distinctive yellow-fronted apartment block in the background helped us locate the footage. Our team is analyzing video footage and photographs shared this morning that depict the scene of a alleged car bomb explosion that authorities in Russia state fatally injured a high-ranking soldier in Moscow. Officials in Russia confirmed that Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was in the car that exploded and that he later died to his injuries. A probe is under way. Our starting point to check the site from which the pictures originated was based on social media reports saying the explosion occurred on Yasenevaya Street in the southern district of the capital city of Russia. We used street-view imagery on digital map platforms and the Russian search engine Yandex Maps to corroborate the distinctive yellow colour of a adjacent residential complex seen in the footage. Identifying additional buildings, lamp-posts and the street layout verified where the pictures were taken. Additionally, we verified that the videos were recent and that the visuals had not undergone manipulated.