A senior Russian army official, Igor Kirillov, was killed in an explosion on Tuesday morning near a residential building in the southeast of Moscow, the Russian Investigative Committee announced.
kyiv said on Monday that “at least 30 soldiers” North Korean, fighting alongside the Russian army, had been injured or killed in the Russian region of Kursk, partially occupied by kyiv’s forces.
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MORT D’IGOR KIRILLOV
The death of a senior official in the Russian army, Igor Kirillov, made the headlines in the Russian media this morning, explains our correspondent Jérôme Garro on LCI. “He is the head of what we call here the radiation and chemical protection troops of the Russian armies,” he adds in the video below.
Moscow: a senior Russian army official killedSource : TF1 Info
THE ORIGIN OF THE EXPLOSION
A photo released this morning shows the origin of the explosion, a scooter which had been left near a residential building in the Russian capital.
Moscow: a senior Russian army official killedSource : TF1 Info
SENIOR RUSSIAN ARMY OFFICIAL KILLED IN MOSCOW
A senior Russian army official was killed in the explosion that occurred Tuesday morning near a residential building in the southeast of Moscow, announced the Russian Investigative Committee, 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.
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“A dangerous enlargement”. This is the warning issued on Monday, December 16, by the United States and its allies regarding North Korea’s “direct” support for Russia in the conflict in Ukraine. “We urge North Korea to immediately cease all assistance to Russia for its war of aggression against Ukraine, including by withdrawing its troops,” said in a statement the heads of diplomacy of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom United States, and the European Union.
Moscow and Pyongyang signed an official defense agreement at the beginning of December sealing their rapprochement marked, according to Washington, by the sending of more than 10,000 North Korean soldiers to help Russia fight Ukraine. kyiv said on Monday that“at least 30 soldiers” North Koreans, fighting alongside the Russian army, were injured or killed Saturday and Sunday in the Russian region of Kursk, partially occupied by kyiv forces.
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In their press release, the ten countries and the EU also denounce “North Korea’s export of ballistic missiles, artillery shells and other military equipment to Russia for use on the battlefield against Ukraine.” Westerners fear that in exchange for this assistance, Moscow will help Pyongyang. The heads of diplomacy thus expressed their “deep concern” concerning “any political, military or economic support that Russia may provide to North Korea’s illegal weapons program, including weapons of mass destruction.”
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