The head of Russia’s nuclear defense forces has been killed in an explosion in Moscow

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Russia’s Investigative Committee says 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

ByThe Associated Press

December 17, 2024, 1:35 AM

MOSCOW -- 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.

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