🔗 Share this article Locating a Venezuela-linked Oil Tanker 'Pursued' by American Maritime Authorities Kumar Malhotra Source A uniquely yellow-fronted apartment block visible behind assisted us locate the video. Our team is checking video footage and photographs circulated earlier today that show the aftermath of a alleged car bomb explosion that Russian officials state fatally injured a senior soldier in Moscow. Officials in Russia confirmed that Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was in the car that exploded and that he succumbed to his wounds. A probe is under way. The initial step to verify the site from which the images originated relied on social media reports saying the explosion occurred on Yasenevaya Ulitsa in the southern district of the Russian capital. Our analysis employed street-view imagery on digital map platforms and the Russian search engine Yandex to match the distinctive yellow hue of a nearby apartment building seen in the footage. Identifying additional structures, streetlights and the road configuration verified where the footage were captured. We also checked that the videos were recent and that the visuals had not undergone digital alteration.