Igor Kirillov, a senior Russian army official, was killed in the explosion near a residential building in southeastern Moscow.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces, was killed in an explosion in the early morning hours of Tuesday, December 17, near a residential building in southeastern Moscow. announced the Russian Investigative Committee, responsible for the main investigations in the country.
According to a press release from this Committee relayed by AFP, “an explosive device placed in a scooter parked near the entrance to a residential building was activated on the morning of December 17 on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow.” The American press, for its part, mentions the explosion of an electric scooter.
The entrance to the building was seriously damaged and the windows of several apartments were broken, according to images published by Russian media.
Investigators were dispatched to the scene and examinations are underway to establish “all the circumstances” of the incident, according to the same source.
