Ukrainian Security Service plots assassination of Russian general responsible for chemical attacks in Ukraine – RBC-Ukraine
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On December 17, in the Russian capital, Moscow, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical, and biological protection troops of the Russian Armed Forces, was killed in an explosive device explosion. The operation to eliminate him was carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine.
RBC-Ukraine's own sources reported this.
According to the publication's sources, the scooter with the explosives was detonated when Kirillov and his assistant were entering a house on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow. Both of them were killed in the blast.
"Kirillov was a war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target since he gave orders to use prohibited chemical weapons against the Ukrainian military. Such an inglorious end awaits all those who kill Ukrainians. Retribution for war crimes is inevitable," an informed source said.
As Rubryka previously reported, the cause of the explosion, according to propaganda sources, was the detonation of an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to an electric scooter.
"First, they heard the sound of a detonation, then they saw cars and the bodies of men. There were fragments of windows broken by the shock wave lying nearby. According to one version, it could have been an assassination attempt," the reports say.
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According to preliminary data, the attackers planted about 200 grams of TNT and remotely activated the explosive device at the moment when the general and his assistant were leaving the entrance. The shock wave damaged the entrance door, broke out the windows in the building, and also damaged two cars, one of which belonged to the deceased serviceman.
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Russian Wikipedia has already updated the data on the 54-year-old military leader, setting his death date as December 17, 2024. It says that Igor Kirillov "performed many complex state tasks" in his position in the Russian Federation and abroad, in particular in Syria.
He was involved in creating and adopting the TOS-2 "Tosochka" heavy flamethrower system for the Russian army. Russian media also boasted that with Kirillov's assistance, the country developed a set of reagents for detecting the COVID-19 virus.
The day prior, Ukraine's Security Service announced that they had accused Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, a Russian leader, of ordering the utilization of chemical weapons against the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
"On Kirillov's orders, since the beginning of the full-scale war, more than 4.8 thousand cases of the enemy's use of chemical munitions have been recorded.
In particular, we are talking about "K-1" combat grenades, which are equipped with poisonous irritant substances – CS and CN. Their use is prohibited by the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction of January 13, 1993.
During the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, more than 2 thousand military personnel of the Defense Forces with varying degrees of chemical poisoning were sent to military hospitals and other medical institutions of Ukraine," the Security Service of Ukraine reported.
It has been confirmed that he gave orders for the occupiers to utilize banned chemical weapons against the Defense Forces, specifically on the eastern and southern fronts of Ukraine. Since the start of the extensive Russian invasion, there have been over 4,800 documented instances of the enemy deploying chemical munitions.
Photo: Security Service of UkraineAfter gathering evidence, investigators from the Security Service filed a report in absentia against Kirillov. According to Part 2 of Article 28 and Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, he is suspected of committing a war crime. These crimes involve premeditated actions by a group of individuals as part of a conspiracy.
It's worth mentioning that this is not the first instance of such cases. Specifically, on Monday morning, December 9, there was an explosion in the center of the temporarily occupied Donetsk. A vehicle with passengers exploded in the city, causing the death of the head of the DPR's Olenivka colony, Sergey Yevsyukov, who was inside the car.
In addition, in May, a car belonging to a Russian deputy from United Russia blew up in the territory of Ukraine temporarily occupied by the Russian aggressors.
Also, on April 12, a car belonging to a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine exploded in Moscow while he was inside.
On April 1, in occupied Starobilsk, Luhansk region, a local collaborator, former deputy of the Starobilsk district council, and "advisor to the head of the administration of the Starobilsk district of the LPR" Valeriy Chaika, died in a car explosion.
Furthermore, in the city of Luhansk, which is currently occupied, the vehicle of a collaborator who was previously in charge of the "People's Militia of the LPR," Mykhailo Filiponenko, was detonated, resulting in his immediate death.
