🔗 Share this article Locating the Venezuela-linked Vessel 'Pursued' by American Maritime Authorities Yi Ma Source The distinctive yellow-colored apartment block visible behind assisted us verify the video. We are verifying images and video shared this morning that show the scene of a alleged car bomb blast that Russian officials state killed a senior soldier in Moscow. Russian authorities confirmed that Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was in the car that detonated and that he succumbed of his injuries. An investigation is currently ongoing. The initial step to verify the location of where the pictures originated relied on social media reports indicating the blast occurred on Yasenevaya Street in the southern part of the Russian capital. We used panoramic mapping services on Google Maps and the Russian search engine Yandex to corroborate the distinctive yellow hue of a adjacent apartment building seen in the video. Locating other buildings, lamp-posts and the road configuration confirmed where the footage were taken. Additionally, we verified that the videos were new and that the visuals had not been manipulated.