A senior Russian general has been killed in an explosion in Moscow after a bomb was hidden in an electric scooter, officials said.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt, some 7 km (4 miles) southeast of the Kremlin early on Tuesday morning.
His assistant was also killed, Russia’s investigative committee said. Russia’s Investigative Commitee said it had “opened a criminal case into the murder of two servicemen”.
“Investigators, forensic experts and operational services are working at the scene,” it said.
“Investigative actions and operational search activities are being carried out aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the crime.”
The UK placed sanctions on Kirillov in October, accusing the commander of overseeing the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine and acting as a “significant mouthpiece for Kremlin disinformation”.
On Monday, Ukraine’s secret service, the SBU charged him in absentia, saying on Telegram that he was “responsible for the mass use of banned chemical weapons”.
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