According to the Russian authorities, the suspect had been offered a cash reward of $100,000 and a trip to a European country.
Kirillov was in charge of the Russian military’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons protection forces.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) claimed responsibility for Kirillov’s assassination, a Ukrainian law enforcement official told POLITICO Tuesday. A few hours before the attack, the SBU charged Kirillov in absentia for ordering the massive use of banned chemical weapons against the Ukrainian army on the eastern and southern fronts of the battlefield.
An aide to Kirillov was also killed in the blast.