«On the morning of December 17, an explosive device placed in a scooter exploded near the entrance to a residential building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow – said the spokeswoman of the Russian Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko -. The head of the Russian troops for protection from radiation, chemical and biological agents, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, and his assistant were killed in the explosion.” Petrenko added that the Committee’s Moscow department had opened a criminal investigation into the attack. Ukrainska Pravda publishes on its website a photo of an electric scooter among the rubble of the stricken building. According to preliminary information, writes Ukrainska Pravda, an improvised explosive device had been placed on the scooter. In another image, two people can be seen on the ground, near a car with a shattered windshield. A third photo shows the damaged entrance to the building where Kirillov and the other victim, who Petrenko said was his assistant, not his deputy, were headed. Yesterday Kiev’s military intelligence (SBU) announced that it suspected the Russian general of having ordered the use of chemical weapons against the Ukrainian defense forces.
