🔗 Share this article Following the Venezuela-linked Tanker Reportedly Pursued by American Maritime Authorities Yi Ma Source The distinctive yellow-fronted apartment block visible behind helped us locate the video. We are checking video footage and photographs circulated this morning that depict the scene of a alleged vehicle-borne explosive explosion that authorities in Russia state killed a senior military officer in Moscow. Russian authorities stated that Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was in the vehicle that detonated and that he succumbed to his wounds. A probe is under way. Our starting point to verify the location of where the images were from was based on social media reports indicating the explosion occurred on Yasenevaya Ulitsa in the southern part of the capital city of Russia. We used panoramic mapping services on digital map platforms and the local mapping service Yandex to corroborate the distinctive yellow colour of a adjacent apartment building captured in the footage. Locating additional structures, streetlights and the road configuration verified the exact location the footage were captured. Additionally, we verified that the video clips were recent and that the images had not undergone manipulated.