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Moscow Explosion Kills Top Russian General Who Reported on US Biolabs in Africa
Moscow Explosion Kills Top Russian General Who Reported on US Biolabs in Africa
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As a result of the explosion in Moscow, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense of the Russian armed forces, and his assistant were killed, according to the Russian Investigative Committee.A criminal case has been opened in connection with the incident on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow, which resulted in the deaths of two men, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Tuesday.According to preliminary reports, the improvised explosive device was placed on an electric scooter positioned at the entrance of the house.Investigators are at the scene and medical and bomb experts are being called in to assist in the operation, a search for the perpetrator is underway, the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee said.The power of the explosive device that went off in Moscow amounted to about 200 grams of TNT, emergency services told Sputnik.The blast wave shattered the windows in the house opposite to where the bomb went off.Russian security forces have begun studying video from surveillance cameras near the entrance to the building in southeast Moscow where Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed, a representative of the capital's emergency services told Sputnik.The death of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov is an irreparable loss; his killers will be punished, Konstantin Kosachev, deputy speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament, said.Kirillov systematically exposed the crimes of the Anglo-Saxons and NATO provocations, and worked fearlessly, recalled Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry's spokeswoman.
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Moscow Explosion Kills Top Russian General Who Reported on US Biolabs in Africa
06:21 17.12.2024 (Updated: 11:36 18.12.2024) Major General Igor Kirillov headed Russia's NBC defense troops since 2017. His career included involvement in developing the TOS-2 flamethrower system, used in the Ukraine conflict. General Kirillov also took part in measures to combat coronavirus infection and the creation of a Russian vaccine against COVID-19.
As a result of the explosion in Moscow, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense of the Russian armed forces, and his assistant
were killed, according to the Russian Investigative Committee.
"According to the investigation, on the morning of December 17, an explosive device, planted in a scooter parked next to the entrance of a residential building, was detonated on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow. As a result of the incident, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of the armed forces of Russia, Igor Kirillov, and his assistant were killed," the committee wrote on Telegram.
A criminal case has been opened in connection with the incident on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow, which resulted in the deaths of two men, the
Russian Investigative Committee said on Tuesday.
"In connection with the incident that occurred on Ryazanskiy Prospekt in the city of Moscow, which resulted in the deaths of two men, the investigative bodies of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the city of Moscow have opened a criminal case," the committee said on Telegram.
According to preliminary reports, the improvised explosive device was placed on an electric scooter positioned at the entrance of the house.
Investigators are at the scene and medical and bomb experts are being called in to assist in the operation, a search for the perpetrator is underway, the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee said.
The power of the explosive device that went off in Moscow amounted to about 200 grams of TNT,
emergency services told
Sputnik.
The blast wave shattered the windows in the house opposite to where the bomb went off.
Russian security forces have begun studying video from surveillance cameras near the entrance to the building in southeast
Moscow where Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed, a representative of the capital's emergency services told
Sputnik.
"Video footage from the explosion site on Ryazansky Prospekt was seized," the representative said, adding that specialists have started studying the materials.
The death of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov is an irreparable loss; his killers will be punished, Konstantin Kosachev, deputy speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament, said.
"This is shock. An irreparable loss. Eternal memory. Condolences to the families of the victims. The murderers will be punished. Without a doubt and without mercy," Kosachev wrote on Telegram.
Kirillov systematically exposed the crimes of the Anglo-Saxons and
NATO provocations, and worked fearlessly, recalled Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry's spokeswoman.
