General Igor Kirillov, commander of Russia's radiochemical and biological protection forces, was killed in an explosion in Moscow on Tuesday morning. The second victim was a military aide. “He exposed the crimes of the Anglo-Saxons, the provocation of NATO,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote in a condolence post.
According to Russian media, the bomb exploded in front of a residential building on Ryazan Boulevard, which starts about 7 kilometers southeast of the Kremlin.
Russia. A huge explosion occurred in Moscow. Russian general and his aide killed
According to Moscow investigators, a bomb with the destructive power equivalent to 200 grams of TNT was hidden inside the electric scooter, independent portals Meduza and Reuters reported. The explosion was so powerful that windows of nearby buildings were damaged up to the third floor.
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General Igor Kirillov is known for holding a press conference with the Russian Ministry of Defense starting in 2023, during which he reported that the United States was involved in a biological weapons development program in Ukraine.
The military claimed, among other things, that the United States had allegedly developed a method of releasing “disease-carrying mosquitoes” against enemy forces — as recalled by Meduza and the Krymsky Vetier channel.
An assassination attempt on a Russian general in Moscow. “He exposed NATO's provocation.”
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mariya Zakharova commented on reports about the general's death.
“Over the years (…) he has been responsible for the crimes of the Anglo-Saxons, the provocation of NATO with chemical weapons in Syria, the British operation with banned chemicals, and the provocations at Silisbury and Amesbury. , he has systematically exposed the facts at hand, such as the dangerous activities of American biological laboratories in Ukraine, without hiding behind the people, always for the sake of the motherland and for the truth. “I worked there,” she wrote. Zakharov.
Investigators and forensic experts are working at the scene of the explosion. An investigation into the death of General Kirillov and his assistant has been launched.
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