The head of Russia’s nuclear defense forces has been killed in an explosion in Moscow
Posted Dec 17, 2024 02:36:49 AM.
Last Updated Dec 17, 2024 02:45:26 AM.
MOSCOW (AP) — Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces, was killed early Tuesday by an explosive device planted close to a residential apartment block in Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
Kirillov’s assistant also died in the blast.
Kirillov had been sentenced in absentia by a Ukrainian court Monday for the use of banned chemical weapons during Russia’s invasion of the country.
The Associated Press
