Bomb in scooter, Russian nuclear protection common killed in Moscow | EUROtoday

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An explosive assault resulted within the dying of the lieutenant common Igor Kirillovhead of the Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense (NBC) troops of the Russian Armed Forces, and his assistant. The explosion occurred within the early hours of Tuesday 17 December on Ryazansky Prospektwithin the south-east of Moscow, about 7 kilometers from the Kremlin. This was confirmed by the Russian investigative authorities, cited by the primary nationwide information businesses.

According to preliminary reconstructions, an explosive machine would have been hidden inside a scooter parked close to the doorway of a residential constructing, then detonated as the final handed by. Images unfold on Russian Telegram channels present a broken entrance door, fragments of particles on the snow-covered floor and the our bodies of the victims mendacity on the bottom.

The police instantly launched a legal investigation into the incident. The explosion, along with depriving the Russian Armed Forces of one in all their highest officers, relaunches inner and exterior tensions within the nation. Kirillov’s dying comes a day after he was convicted in absentia by a Ukrainian court docket ofuse of chemical weapons throughout Russian operations in Ukraine started in February 2022. The officer had lengthy been within the worldwide highlight for the function of Russian NBC troops in extremely contaminated environments and for managing potential radiological, chemical and organic threats.

The spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharovacommented on the information by recalling how Kirillov had “denounced the crimes of the West for years”, referring to the provocations attributed to NATO with chemical weapons in Syria, to the alleged manipulations of the United Kingdom within the Salisbury and Amesbury case, and to the US biolaboratories in Ukraine. “He worked without fear, without hiding behind others,” he wrote on Telegram.