A senior Russian army official was killed in an explosion on the morning of Tuesday, December 17, near a residential building in the southeast of Moscow, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced. responsible for the main investigations in the country.
“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 committee said in a statement. “The commander of the Russian radiological, chemical and biological defense forces, Igor Kirillov, and his deputy were killed” following the explosion, according to the same source.
The entrance to the building was seriously damaged and the windows of several apartments were broken, according to images published by Russian media.
Open investigation
“A criminal investigation into the assassination of the two soldiers in Moscow has been opened”according to the committee. Investigators were dispatched to the scene and examinations are underway to establish “all circumstances” of the accident, according to the same source.
In office since April 2017, Igor Kirillov was sanctioned in October by the United Kingdom for “deployment of barbaric chemical weapons in Ukraine”.
His assassination comes in the middle of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, underway since February 2022. On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin took stock of the fighting in Ukraine for the year 2024, welcoming the pace of the advance of his troops. and to have « l’initiative » on the entire front at the end of this “pivotal year”.
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