Top Russian general killed in Moscow apartment blast

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A top Russian general died early Tuesday in a bomb explosion outside his Moscow home, investigators said, killing him and his aide.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, a major crime unit, said Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov, head of the military’s nuclear, chemical and biological defense forces, was killed by a bomb planted on a scooter.

Kirillov, the most famous military man killed in Russia since its inception large-scale invasion of Ukraine In 2022, he regularly accused Kiev of using chemical weapons and plotting to create a nuclear “dirty bomb”.

Ukraine’s SBU security service had issued a “notice of suspicion” to Kirillov a day earlier for alleged “war crimes” against Kiev forces against Kirillov.

An SBU official declined to comment.

The SBU said in a statement on Monday that Kirilov was “responsible for Russia’s massive use of banned chemical weapons against defense forces on Ukraine’s eastern and southern fronts.”

It accuses him of “more than 4,800 incidents of chemical weapons use by the adversary”. [that] have been recorded since the beginning of the large-scale war.

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