Russia has detained an Uzbek citizen who investigators believe placed the bomb which killed Lt Gen Igor Kirillov on the instructions of Ukraine’s security service, the country’s investigative committee has said. The 29-year-old had allegedly been recruited by Ukrainian special services and promised $100,000 and travel to the European Union, the news agency Tass reported, … Read more
UKRAINE’S DOMESTIC security service, known as the SBU, wasted no time. On December 16th the SBU accused General Igor Kirillov, the man in charge of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, of the “mass use” of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine. A day later Mr Kirillov was dead, the victim of an early-morning explosion … Read more
Ukraine claimed responsibility for the assassination of the head of Russia’s radiological, chemical and biological defense troops in a bomb explosion in Moscow early Tuesday. Ukraine’s Security Service, or SBU, carried out the killing of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant, according to a person familiar with the operation. The SBU’s press office declined … Read more