
Chief of Russia’s nuclear protection forces killed in Moscow explosion
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia‘s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed in a bomb attack on Tuesday near an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow. According to RT News, the bomb, concealed in an electric scooter, also claimed the life of Kirillov’s assistant.
Russian investigators have opened a case into the incident, with forensic experts and operational services working at the scene to determine the circumstances surrounding the crime. Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for Russia’s investigative committee, confirmed that investigative and search activities are ongoing.
BREAKING: Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s chemical and biological defense forces, killed in Moscow blast pic.twitter.com/ENBbMbXACG
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The explosive device, believed to have been remotely detonated, contained approximately 300 grams of TNT-equivalent explosive material, according to reports from Russian state news agency Tass. The blast was strong enough to cause fatal injuries at a distance of about 1.55 meters from the device.
Who was Igor Kirillov?
Kirillov, who took charge of Russia’s nuclear protection forces in April 2017, had been previously sanctioned by the UK, Canada, and other countries for his involvement in Russia’s military operations in Ukraine. The Ukrainian court sentenced him in absentia on December 16 for his alleged role in using banned chemical weapons in Ukraine during the ongoing conflict that began in February 2022.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) reported over 4,800 instances of chemical weapons used on the battlefield since the beginning of the war, including the use of K-1 grenades and chloropicrin, a chemical weapon first used in World War I.
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The Europeans out of their fear of Putin are playing a dangerous game. They are still not convince that after 2 years of attempt at damaging the Russian economy with the collective
military might behind Ukraine, Russia could neither be isolated nor could they bring about a Regime Change, while the leaderships have changed or weakened in US,UK, France and Germany. Accept that Russia is no pushover and learn to live with her in peace and dignity to the benefit of all other that the Defence Military Complex.
Must be work of western (NATO) agents