Russian sources say this was retribution for the general’s discovery and public outing of U.S. biolabs operating in Ukraine
Reuters reports that a top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service on Tuesday morning near his residence.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, 54, (pictured above) was chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops. He was killed outside an apartment building along with his assistant when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter went off, according to Russia’s top criminal Investigative Committee.
The scooter containing an improvised explosive device was remotely detonated, killing both Kirillov and his aide as they stepped out of a building on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow, Russian media reported.
A source within the Ukrainian secret police, or SBU, told Reuters that it was behind the hit, stating “The liquidation of the chief of the radiation and chemical protection troops of the Russian Federation is the work of the SBU.”
The U.K.-based Reuters news outlet conveniently failed to mention that the Ukrainian SBU operates as a virtual arm of the CIA and was unlikely to pull the trigger on such a high-profile assassination without the approval of the U.S. intelligence agency.
