A Russian general was killed by a bomb planted in a scooter on a Moscow street on Tuesday, the Russian authorities said, in one of the most brazen assassinations since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago.
The general, Igor Kirillov, died along with an aide after an explosive device planted in a scooter was detonated on Tuesday morning near the entryway to a residential building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee, a law enforcement agency, said in a statement.
“Investigators, forensic experts and operational services are working at the scene of the incident,” the statement said. The RIA Novosti state news agency published a photograph of what it said was a bomb-disposal robot operating outside a brick building in Moscow.
General Kirillov was the head of Russia’s radioactive, chemical and biological defense forces. He helped develop a thermobaric rocket launcher, the TOS-2, according to a biography published by RIA Novosti. The Russian military frequently reports its use in Ukraine.
The killing of General Kirillov was the most high-profile apparent assassination of a Russian military official far from the battlefield since the start of the invasion in 2022.
Several previous targeted killings in Russia have been tied to Ukraine, including a car-bomb attack near Moscow that killed the daughter of a prominent nationalist in October 2022.
Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment Tuesday on the death of General Kirillov.
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