MOSCOW, Russia — The head of the Russian army's chemical weapons division was killed Tuesday in a brazen Moscow attack claimed by Kyiv, the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin's campaign in Ukraine drags on.
MOSCOW, Russia — The head of the Russian army's chemical weapons division was killed Tuesday in a brazen Moscow attack claimed by Kyiv, the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin's campaign in Ukraine drags on.Igor Kirillov was killed along with an assistant when an explosive device attached to a scooter went off outside an apartment building in southeastern Moscow, Russian and Ukrainian officials said.
AFP was unable to verify video footage shared by an SBU source that showed a scooter exploding seconds after two men left a residential building.Residents said they had initially assumed the loud noise they heard came from a nearby construction site.Student Mikhail Mashkov, who lives in the building next door, said he was woken up by a 'very loud explosion noise', thinking 'something fell at the construction site', before looking outside.
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