🔗 Share this article Locating the Venezuelan-affiliated Vessel 'Pursued' by American Maritime Authorities Yi Ma Source The distinctive yellow-colored apartment block visible behind helped us verify the video. We are checking video footage and photographs circulated this morning that purport to show the aftermath of a alleged car bomb explosion that Russian officials say fatally injured a high-ranking military officer in Moscow. Officials in Russia confirmed that Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was in the vehicle that exploded and that he succumbed of his injuries. A probe is under way. Our starting point to verify the site of where the images were from was based on posts saying the blast occurred on Yasenevaya Ulitsa in the southern part of the capital city of Russia. We used street-view imagery on Google Maps and the local mapping service Yandex to match the distinctive yellow colour of a nearby apartment building seen in the footage. Identifying additional structures, streetlights and the road configuration verified the exact location the footage were captured. Additionally, we verified that the videos were new and that the images had not been digital alteration.