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The distinctive yellow-fronted apartment block visible behind helped us locate the video.
Our team is analyzing images and video shared earlier today that show the aftermath of a alleged car bomb blast that Russian officials state fatally injured a senior military officer in Moscow.
Russian authorities stated that Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was in the vehicle that detonated and that he succumbed of his injuries. A probe is currently ongoing.
Our starting point to verify the site from which the pictures originated relied on posts indicating the blast occurred on Yasenevaya Street in the southern part of the Russian capital.
Our analysis employed street-view imagery on digital map platforms and the local mapping service Yandex Maps to match the distinctive yellow colour of a adjacent apartment building captured in the video.
Locating other buildings, streetlights and the street layout verified where the footage were taken.
Additionally, we verified that the videos were new and that the visuals had not been digital alteration.
