A high-ranking general in the Russian armed forces and his assistant have been killed in Moscow by Ukraine’s security service, a Ukrainian source has told the BBC.
Lt-Gen Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Defence Forces, was outside a residential block early on Tuesday when a device hidden in a scooter was detonated remotely, Russia’s Investigative Committee said. A source in Ukraine’s SBU security service claimed Kirillov was “a legitimate target” and alleging he had carried out war crimes.
On Monday, the SBU charged Kirillov in absentia, saying on Telegram that he was “responsible for the mass use of banned chemical weapons”. The Ukrainian government has not yet commented on the general’s death.—BBC
