Vanil Sarvarov

Vanil Sarvarov was a prominent Russian general and the head of the operational training department of the Armed Forces General Staff. He was known for his extensive military experience, having participated in operations in the North Caucasus during the 1990s and leading Russian forces in Syria from 2015 to 2016. Sarvarov was recently in the news following his tragic death in a car explosion in Moscow, an incident that has drawn parallels to other targeted assassinations of military officials in Russia.