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The head of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, was killed early Tuesday in an explosion set off by a device planted at an apartment block in Moscow, Russian officials said. Kirillov’s assistant, who was not identified by name, was also killed in the blast, Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement published on Telegram on Tuesday. AFP - Getty Images fileUkraine’s Security Services on Monday had charged Kirillov with the use of banned chemical weapons during Russia’s invasion of the country, which began in Feb. 2022. The scene of an explosion in which Russian general Igor Kirillov and his assistant were killed in Moscow on Tuesday. He did not hide behind people’s backs,” Zakharova said in a statement published to Telegram on Tuesday.

Persons: Igor Kirillov, Kirillov, Maxim Shemetov, Maria Zakharova, ” Zakharova, Bright Organizations: Chemical Defense Forces, Russia's, AFP, Getty, Britain, Reuters, Reuters Russian Foreign Locations: Moscow, Reuters Russian

☆ The head of Russia's chemical weapons was killed when a scooter bomb exploded in Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia's head of chemical weapons was killed on Tuesday when a bomb in a scooter in Moscow went off. A high-ranking Russian general responsible for Russia's chemical weapons was killed on Tuesday by a bomb placed in a scooter. AdvertisementLieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed by a bomb planted in a scooter parked on a street in Moscow, the country's investigative committee said in a statement on Telegram on Tuesday. "Kirillov was a war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target," the source said, accusing Kirillov of giving orders to use banned chemical weapons against Ukrainian forces. He was sanctioned by the UK in October for the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, including the choking agent chloropicrin.

Persons: Igor Kirillov, Russian Federation Igor Kirillov, Kirillov, Dmitry Medvedev, Kirillov's Organizations: Ukrainian Security, Chemical Protection Troops, Armed Forces, Russian Federation, Business, Ukraine's, Ukrainian, Financial Times, Ukraine's Security Service, Russia's Security, TASS Locations: Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Russia

☆ Ukraine kills top Russian general in Moscow it accuses of chemical weapons crimes
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Defense Ministry's radiological, biological and chemical protection unit, speaks at a briefing over an alleged chemical attack on the Syrian city of Douma, at the Patriot park in the Moscow region on June 22, 2018. A top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine's SBU intelligence service on Tuesday morning in the most high-profile killing of its kind. An SBU source confirmed to Reuters that the Ukrainian intelligence agency had been behind the hit. "The liquidation of the chief of the radiation and chemical protection troops of the Russian Federation is the work of the SBU," the source said. Moscow holds Ukraine responsible for a string of high-profile assassinations on its soil designed to weaken morale and punish those Kyiv regards guilty of war crimes.

Persons: Igor Kirillov, Ukraine's, Kirillov, Dmitry Medvedev Organizations: Russian Defense, Patriot, Ukrainian, Russia's, Chemical Protection Troops, Reuters, Russian Federation Locations: Syrian, Douma, Moscow, Russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Kirillov, Russia

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