đź”— Share this article Locating the Venezuelan-affiliated Vessel Reportedly Pursued by American Maritime Authorities Yi Ma Source A uniquely yellow-colored residential building visible behind helped us locate the footage. Our team is checking video footage and photographs shared this morning that depict the aftermath of a reported vehicle-borne explosive blast that Russian officials state fatally injured a senior military officer in Moscow. Officials in Russia confirmed that Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was inside the car that exploded and that he succumbed of his wounds. An investigation is currently ongoing. Our starting point to verify the location from which the pictures originated relied on social media reports saying the blast happened on Yasenevaya Street in the southern part of the Russian capital. Our analysis employed street-view imagery on Google Maps and the Russian search engine Yandex to corroborate the distinctive yellow hue of a adjacent apartment building captured in the footage. Identifying other structures, streetlights and the road configuration verified where the footage were captured. We also checked that the video clips were new and that the images had not been manipulated.