🔗 Share this article Tracking a Venezuela-linked Oil Tanker Reportedly Pursued by American Maritime Authorities Yi Ma Image source A uniquely yellow-colored apartment block visible behind assisted us locate the video. We are verifying video footage and photographs circulated this morning that purport to show the scene of a alleged vehicle-borne explosive explosion that Russian officials say killed a senior soldier in Moscow. Russian authorities stated that Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was inside the vehicle that exploded and that he later died to his wounds. A probe is currently ongoing. Our starting point to check the location of where the pictures originated relied on posts indicating the explosion occurred on Yasenevaya Street in the southern district of the Russian capital. We used street-view imagery on Google Maps and the local mapping service Yandex to match the distinctive yellow hue of a nearby apartment building seen in the footage. Identifying additional buildings, streetlights and the street layout verified the exact location the footage were taken. We also checked that the video clips were new and that the visuals had not undergone digital alteration.