Russian general killed in explosion in Moscow
A high-ranking general of the Russian armed forces has been killed in an explosion in Moscow.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces (NBC), was leaving a residential block early Tuesday when a device hidden in a scooter detonated.
It said Kirillov’s assistant was also killed.
In October, UK imposed sanctions On Kirillov, he said he had monitored the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine and acted as a “significant mouthpiece for Kremlin disinformation”.
On Monday, Ukraine’s secret service, the SBU, charged him in absentia on telegram He was “responsible for the large-scale use of banned chemical weapons”.
