Emma Pengelly
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The distinctive yellow-fronted residential building visible behind helped us locate the video.
Our team is analyzing images and video circulated this morning that show the aftermath of a reported car bomb explosion that Russian officials say fatally injured a high-ranking soldier in Moscow.
Officials in Russia confirmed that Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was inside the car that exploded and that he later died to his wounds. An investigation is under way.
Our starting point to check the location from which the images originated was based on social media reports saying the explosion occurred on Yasenevaya Ulitsa in the southern district of the Russian capital.
We used street-view imagery on digital map platforms and the Russian search engine Yandex Maps to corroborate the unique yellow hue of a nearby residential complex seen in the video.
Locating additional buildings, lamp-posts and the street layout confirmed where the pictures were taken.
We also checked that the videos were recent and that the images had not undergone digital alteration.
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