A Russian general commanding the country's nuclear protection forces, Lt. General Igor Kirillov, was killed in an explosion caused by a remotely operated device hidden in a scooter in Moscow.
A Russian general who headed the country's nuclear protection forces has been killed in an explosion in Moscow , it has been reported.Lt. General Igor Kirillov was leaving a residential block on Tuesday when an explosive device hidden in a scooter detonated, killing him and his assistant, officials cited by the Associated Press said.
Kirillov, the head of Russia's nuclear, biological, and chemical defense forces, had been charged in Ukraine on Monday for the use of banned chemical weapons in the war started by Moscow.He had also been sanctioned by the U.K. and other countries for his role in Russia's use of the weapons.The explosion took place on Ryazansky Prospekt, roughly seven miles east of the Kremlin.The state news agency TASS said that the device that killed Kirillov was remotely operated and had a capacity equivalent to 300g of TNT, which would be enough to break windows from around 55 feet away.Svetlana Petrenko, from Russia's Investigative Committee, said that a murder case had been opened.Ukraine's security service, the SBU, has accused Russia of using chemical weapons more than 4,800 times over the course of the war.Ukraine has not commented on Tuesday's explosion, but Kyiv has previously targeted Russian officials closely linked to Moscow's full-scale invasion.Mikhail Shatsky, who helped modernize missiles launched against Ukraine, was shot dead near Moscow on December 12, a Ukrainian Defense Forces source told the Kyiv Independent.On September 28, Aleksey Kolomeitsev, a Russian colonel who trained personnel to use attack drones, was killed in the city of Kolomna in the Moscow region, according to Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR).This is a breaking story. More to follow
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