Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, was killed outside an apartment building in Moscow. Ukrainian security services claim responsibility for the killing, calling it a 'special operation'. Ukrainian prosecutors have also charged Kirillov in absentia with using banned chemical weapons in Ukraine.
On Monday, Ukrainian prosecutors charged Kirillov in absentia with the alleged use of banned chemical weapons . Photograph: AFPTV/AFP via Getty ImagesThe killing of Igor Kirillov was a “special operation” by Ukraine ’s SBU security service, a source inside the agency told Reuters. “The liquidation of Lieut Gen Igor Kirillov, chief of the Russia n Armed Forces’ radiation, chemical and biological defence troops is a special operation by the SBU,” AFP also reported.
Kirillov, who is chief of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, was killed outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt, 7km southeast of the Kremlin.Ukraine food train delivers nourishment to places where invasion has made preparing a meal impossible “Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, and his assistant were killed,” the investigative committee said. Photographs posted on Russian Telegram channels showed a shattered entrance to a building littered with rubble and two bodies lying in the blood-stained snow. Local media reported that an associate of the general was also killed in the blast.Russia's radioactive, chemical and biological defence troops, known as RKhBZ, are special forces who operate under conditions of radioactive, chemical and biological contamination.prosecutors charged Kirillov in absentia with the alleged use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine said, according to the Kyiv Independent.Britain in October sanctioned Kirillov and the nuclear protection forces for using riot control agents and multiple reports of the use of the toxic choking agent chloropicrin on the battlefiel
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