ARussiangeneral was killed Monday aftera bomb exploded under his carin Moscow, officials said.
Russian investigators said they were looking into whether Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov was assassinated byUkrainian intelligence services.
NBC News has asked the Ukrainian government for a response.
Sarvarov, 56, was head of the operational training directorate of Russia's armed forces general staff.
On Monday morning "an explosive device planted under the bottom of a car was detonated" on Yasenevaya Street in the south of the city, Russian Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement.
"Investigators are pursuing various theories regarding the murder," Petrenko said. "One of them is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence agencies."
It would not be the first time Ukraine has carried out the assassination of a top general deep inside Russia.
In April, itclaimed responsibility for killing Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalikin a car bomb near the Russian capital. And in December 2024, it said it was behindthe death of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia's chemical, radiological and biological weapons unit.
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