Moscow. A senior Russian general, the head of the force protecting Russia’s nuclear weapons, was assassinated in Moscow on Tuesday. Russia’s Investigative Committee said he was killed by a bomb hidden in an electric scooter in Moscow on Tuesday. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was the chief of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical forces.
They were targeted outside an apartment building 7 km southeast of the Kremlin. According to the investigating committee, along with Igor Kirillov, his assistant also died in the attack. Pictures have been posted on Russian Telegram channels, which are being claimed to be related to the incident. In these pictures, a broken door of a building littered with debris and two bodies are visible in the snow. Russian agencies have launched a criminal investigation into the murder case.
In October this year, Britain imposed sanctions on Kirillov and accused him of monitoring the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. He was said to be an important mouthpiece for spreading Kremlin propaganda. Radioactive, chemical and biological defense troops of Russia are known as RKhBZ. This is a special force.
Ukraine’s intelligence service SBU has reported that a day earlier Ukrainian prosecutors had accused General Kirillov (Igor Kirillov) of being responsible for the large-scale use of banned chemical weapons inside Ukraine. Russia had rejected these allegations. The Russian general has been murdered at a time when the Russian army is embroiled in a war with Ukraine. In such a situation, the death of the Russian general is being considered a big blow for President Putin.
