Russia: Another Bloody Ukrainian Terrorist Attack in Moscow
Igor Kirillov, commander of anti-nuclear, anti-chemical, and anti-biological defense troops of the Russian Armed Forces, fell victim of a bomb blast
General Igor Kirillov (pictured), commander of the Russian Armed Forces’ anti-nuclear, anti-chemical, and anti-biological defense troops, was killed in an attack in Moscow, for which “Ukrainian special services” immediately claimed responsibility, according to the AFP news agency. According to Russian sources, in addition to the general, the explosion cost the life of his contact, a young lieutenant. The Russian soldiers were killed when a bomb went off, attached to the handlebars of an electric scooter, parked near the entrance of an apartment building on Ryazansky Avenue in the southeast of the Russian capital.
“An explosive device planted in a scooter exploded near the entrance of a residential building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow,” said Svetlana Petrenko, an official spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee. The explosion killed “Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, commander-in-chief of the Russian forces for defense against radiation, chemical, and biological agents, and his assistant.” Petrenko added that the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee had opened a criminal case over the attack. According to preliminary information, the scooter was loaded with an improvised explosive device with remote detonation.
Ukrainian security services regularly organize terrorist attacks in Russia: in two previous attacks, Russian journalists Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky were killed, and in the third attack, Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin was seriously injured.
General Igor Kirillov, who was killed in Moscow, had systematically condemned the crimes of the West. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Zakharova cited a number of examples: NATO’s chemical weapons provocations in Syria, Britain’s manipulation of banned chemicals and provocations in Salisbury and Amesbury, and the deadly activities of US bio-laboratories in Ukraine. “Kirillov worked fearlessly and did not hide behind someone else’s back,” the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman added.
