Ukraine claims responsibility for the Moscow bombing that killed a Russian general accused of chemical weapons attacks
A high-ranking Russian general was killed by a bomb hidden on a scooter outside his Moscow building on Tuesday, a day after Ukraine’s security agency filed criminal charges against him.
The Ukrainian official said that the attack was carried out by the country’s security service. Lieutenant General. Igor Kirillov, head of the army’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed on his way to his office.
According to Russian news reports, Kirillov’s assistant was also killed in the remote-triggered explosion. Footage from the scene shows broken windows, burns and blackened brickwork.
Kirillov has been sanctioned by a number of countries, including Great Britain and Canada, for his actions in Moscow’s war in Ukraine. On Monday, the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, opened a criminal case against him, accusing him of directing the use of banned chemical weapons.
The SBU official said that the agency was behind the attack. SBU official addressed Reuters news agency with a similar claim.
The SBU said it had recorded more than 4,800 incidents of chemical weapons use on the battlefield since Russia’s large-scale invasion in February 2022. In May, the US State Department said in a statement that it had registered the use of the poison chloropicrin. gas was first deployed against Ukrainian troops in World War I.
Russia has denied using any chemical weapons in Ukraine, and in turn has accused Kiev of using toxic agents in the fighting.
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Kirillov, who began his current job in 2017, was one of the most high-profile individuals to raise the allegations. He has held numerous briefings to accuse Ukraine’s military of using poison and carrying out radioactive attacks – claims that Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed as propaganda.
Former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said on Tuesday that the Ukrainian leadership would soon take revenge for the murder.
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