Russian military's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow blast
The head of the Russian army's chemical weapons division died on Tuesday when an explosive device attached to a scooter went off outside an apartment building in Moscow, officials said.Russia's Investigative Committee said that Kirillov was killed after "an explosive device planted in a scooter parked near the entrance of a residential building was activated on the morning of December 17 on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow".
General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's biological, chemical forces, killed in Moscow blast claimed by Ukraine
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A senior Russian general was killed in a bomb blast in a residential neighborhood in Moscow, Russian media reported early Tuesday.
Ukraine says it assassinated Russia's chemical weapons chief in a scooter bomb explosion in Moscow
Igor Kirillov was killed by a bomb planted in a scooter in Moscow. A Ukrainian Security Service source told BI that Ukraine was behind the attack.
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Russian Chemical Weapons General Killed by Bomb in Scooter
Lt. General Igor Kirillov was charged in Ukraine in absentia on Monday for the use of banned chemical weapons and had been sanctioned by other countries.
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“On their instructions, he arrived in Moscow and was given a homemade explosive device. He placed it on an electric scooter, which he parked at the entrance to the apartment building where Igor Kirillov lived,” the spokesperson for the Russian Investigative Committee said.
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