Ukraine has claimed killing a senior Russian general, Lt Gen
Igor Kirillov, in an explosion in Moscow.
The explosive device was reportedly hidden in an electric
scooter and detonated outside an apartment building in the Russian capital.
Ukraine has claimed the attack which marks one of the
boldest targeted assassinations of a senior military official since Russia’s
full-scale invasion of the country.
Kirillov is the head of the military’s chemical, biological
and radiological weapons unit.
He died along with his assistant when the blast went off as
the two men left a building in a residential area in south-east Moscow on
Tuesday.
A source in Ukraine’s SBU security service said Kyiv was
behind the attack.
Kirillov is the most senior Russian military official to be
killed in an assassination away from the frontline since the start of Russian
offensive in Ukraine nearly three years ago.
Speaking at a meeting with senior Russian leadership, Dmitry
Medvedev, the deputy head of the country’s security council, said Moscow would
avenge the killing.
“We must do everything to eliminate those who ordered the
assassination of Gen Kirillov, namely the military-political leadership of
Ukraine,” he said.
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