Hike trap
The detonation occurred on Tuesday 17 December at 6:12 a.m. local time (4:12 Polish time) at the Riazański Prospekt in Moscow, This occurred about 7 km southeast of the Kremlin. Reuters, citing his origin in SBU, reported that Ukraine safety Service was behind the assassination.
The Russian Federation Investigative Committee reported that an explosive of about 200 g of TNT was attached to an electrical scooter which was left close the entrance to 1 of the residential buildings.
General Igor Kirillov, commander of Russian radiation and biological protection troops, and his assistant, Ilja Polikarpov, had no chance of surviving. The detonation was so strong that the shock waves broke the windows on the 3 floors of the close building and ripped out the entrance door.
Perpetrator detained
The Russian national safety Service (FSB) reported on Wednesday that a 29-year-old man from Uzbekistan is simply a fishy in the bombing.
According to the statement, during the proceeding he explained that he was recruited by Ukrainian peculiar services. He was to arrive in Moscow on orders from Ukraine and rent a car to monitor Kirilov's residence. He then placed the explosive on the electrical scooter, which he left at the entrance to the building where the general lived.
The Russians study that the fishy received a "guaranteed" prize of $100,000 and an chance to flee to 1 of the European countries.
Who was Kirilov?
Informer Interfax-Ukraine, speaking of 1 of the victims of the explosion, said:
Kirillov was a war criminal and a completely legitimate mark due to the fact that he ordered the usage of banned chemical weapons against the Ukrainian army. specified an unpleasant end awaits all who kill the Ukrainians. Retaliation for war crimes is inevitable.
In October, the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Kirilov for, among others, the usage of chemical weapons – a toxic chloropicrin suffocating agent – during attacks in Ukraine.
Gen. Kirillov was known to lead the briefings for the Russian defence ministry since 2023, during which he claimed that the United States was active in a bioweapon improvement program in Ukraine. He claimed, among others, that the Americans developed a method utilizing “combs that carry diseases” to be utilized against enemy troops – recalled the channels of Medusa and Crimean Wietier on the Telegram.
