🔗 Share this article Locating a Venezuela-linked Oil Tanker Reportedly Pursued by the US Coast Guard Emma Pengelly Source The distinctive yellow-fronted apartment block visible behind assisted us verify the video. Our team is checking video footage and photographs shared this morning that purport to show the aftermath of a alleged car bomb blast that authorities in Russia state killed a high-ranking military officer in Moscow. Russian authorities stated that Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was in the car that detonated and that he succumbed to his wounds. A probe is under way. The initial step to check the site of where the pictures were from relied on social media reports saying the blast occurred on Yasenevaya Ulitsa in the southern part of the capital city of Russia. We used panoramic mapping services on Google Maps and the local mapping service Yandex to match the distinctive yellow hue of a adjacent apartment building seen in the footage. Locating other structures, streetlights and the road configuration verified where the footage were taken. We also checked that the videos were new and that the images had not been manipulated.