In December 2025, Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff’s Operational Training Directorate, was killed in a car bombing in Moscow. A Russian man who left the country in 2022 and now coordinates a network of volunteers tracking Russian military personnel says he helped prepare the killing. His role is detailed in the BBC documentary ”Traitors, Patriots, Spies: Shadowmen Helping Ukraine Inside Russia.”