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.

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