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Kumar Malhotra
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The distinctive yellow-colored residential building visible behind assisted us verify the video.
We are checking video footage and photographs posted earlier today that purport to show the aftermath of a alleged car bomb explosion that Russian officials say fatally injured a high-ranking soldier in Moscow.
Officials in Russia stated that Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was in the vehicle that exploded and that he later died to his injuries. A probe is under way.
The initial step to check 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 panoramic mapping services on Google Maps and the Russian search engine Yandex to match the unique yellow colour of a adjacent residential complex captured in the footage.
Identifying other structures, lamp-posts and the street layout verified where the pictures were taken.
Additionally, we verified that the videos were recent and that the images had not undergone manipulated.
