Ukrainian security services carried out a successful operation in Moscow, killing Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov. Kirillov was accused of war crimes, including the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian forces. The incident sparked threats of retaliation from Russia.
The bomb was triggered remotely and had the power equivalent to roughly 300g of TNT, Russian media reports.Ukraine's security services have killed Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in a special operation in Moscow, Reuters and AFP wire agencies reported, quoting unnamed sources.
Kiev regarded Kirillov as a war criminal and an'absolutely legitimate target', accusing him of ordering the use of prohibited chemical weapons against Ukrainian forces in the war, a source told Reuters news agency. Kirillov, who was the chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed on Tuesday on Ryazansky Prospek road, some 7 kilometres southeast of the Kremlin after a bomb hidden in an electric scooter exploded.Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said the Ukrainian leadership would face imminent revenge for the killing of the general, RIA news agency reported. 'Realising the inevitability of its military defeat, it launches cowardly and despicable strikes in peaceful cities,' he said. Photographs posted on Russian Telegram channels showed a shattered entrance to a building littered with rubble and two bodies lying in the blood-stained snow
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