🔗 Share this article Following a Venezuelan-affiliated Oil Tanker 'Pursued' by the US Coast Guard Emma Pengelly Image source The distinctive yellow-colored apartment block visible behind helped us verify the video. Our team is checking video footage and photographs shared earlier today that show the scene of a alleged car bomb explosion that authorities in Russia state killed a senior soldier in Moscow. Russian authorities stated that Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was in the car that exploded and that he succumbed of his injuries. A probe is currently ongoing. The initial step to check the location of where the images originated was based on social media reports saying the blast happened on Yasenevaya Street in the southern part of the Russian capital. We used street-view imagery on digital map platforms and the local mapping service Yandex to match the distinctive yellow colour of a adjacent residential complex seen in the footage. Identifying other structures, lamp-posts and the road configuration confirmed where the footage were taken. Additionally, we verified that the videos were recent and that the visuals had not undergone manipulated.