A top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops has been assassinated in Moscow using a bomb hidden in an electric scooter, Russian investigators said on Tuesday.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who was chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside a residential building on Ryazansky Prospekt along with his assistant, Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes serious crimes, said in a statement.
Photographs posted on Russian Telegram channels showed a shattered entrance to a building littered with rubble and two bodies lying in the bloodstained snow.
Reuters footage from the scene showed a police cordon. Investigators said they had opened a criminal case into the murder of two servicemen.
The bomb was triggered remotely, Russian state news agency Tass reported. Law enforcement sources told Russian media it was likely to be upgraded into a terrorism case.