🔗 Share this article Following the Venezuelan-affiliated Vessel Reportedly Pursued by the US Coast Guard Kumar Malhotra Image source A uniquely yellow-fronted apartment block visible behind helped us verify the video. Our team is verifying images and video shared earlier today that depict the scene of a alleged car bomb blast that Russian officials state fatally injured a senior military officer in Moscow. Officials in Russia confirmed that Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was in the vehicle that detonated and that he succumbed to his injuries. An investigation is currently ongoing. The initial step to verify the location from which the pictures originated was based on posts indicating the blast happened on Yasenevaya Street in the southern district of the Russian capital. Our analysis employed street-view imagery on digital map platforms and the local mapping service Yandex Maps to corroborate the unique yellow hue of a adjacent apartment building seen in the footage. Identifying additional structures, lamp-posts and the street layout verified where the pictures were taken. Additionally, we verified that the videos were new and that the visuals had not undergone digital alteration.