Ukraine has claimed one of the boldest assassinations of a senior military officer since Russia’s invasion began – killing a general using a bomb hidden in an electric scooter in Moscow less than 24 hours after it accused him of overseeing the use of chemical weapons against Kyiv’s troops.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the chief of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, was killed outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt, in southeast Moscow, when the device detonated. He is the most senior Russian military official to be killed in an assassination away from the front lines since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine started nearly three years ago.
