🔗 Share this article Locating a Venezuelan-affiliated Vessel 'Pursued' by the US Coast Guard Kumar Malhotra Source The distinctive yellow-fronted residential building in the background helped us verify the video. We are analyzing images and video circulated this morning that purport to show the scene of a alleged car bomb blast that Russian officials state killed a high-ranking soldier in Moscow. Officials in Russia confirmed that Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was in the vehicle that exploded and that he succumbed of his wounds. An investigation is under way. Our starting point to verify the site from which the images originated was based on posts saying the explosion occurred on Yasenevaya Street in the southern district of the Russian capital. Our analysis employed street-view imagery on Google Maps and the local mapping service Yandex Maps to match the distinctive yellow hue of a adjacent apartment building captured in the video. Identifying other structures, lamp-posts and the road configuration confirmed where the pictures were captured. Additionally, we verified that the videos were new and that the images had not been digital alteration.