The head of the Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov, died this Tuesday morning due to the detonation of a bomb placed on an electric scooter that was parked at the entrance of a residential building in the Russian capital, Moscow.
The spokesperson for the Russian Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, has indicated through a statement published on the organization’s Telegram channel that Kirilov’s assistant has also died in the context of the explosion. The Committee’s Investigation Department has opened a criminal case for the murder of two soldiers.
Investigators, who are carrying out search activities aimed at establishing the circumstances of the attack, and security force agents have traveled to the scene of the incident, in the east of Moscow.
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Igor Kirillov was a high-ranking Russian general and head of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBQ) Defense Forces of the Russian Federation. He was appointed head of the force in April 2017. According to Russian state media outlet Tass, he attended the Kostroma Higher Military Command School for Chemical Defense.
The general held different functions in the Russian army related to hazardous materials, including the Directorate of the Chief of the Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops.
Just yesterday, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) convicted Kirillov in absentia of using chemical weapons banned in Ukraine, the newspaper reported. Kyiv Independent. The SBU claimed that Russia used chemical weapons almost 5,000 times under Kirillov’s leadership.
Kirillov was sanctioned by the United Kingdom and Canada, among others, for his role in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
