Una bomba uccide il capo delle forze di difesa nucleare russe e il suo assistente a Mosca

An explosive device planted near an apartment building in Moscow killed the head of Russia nuclear & chemical forces. Russia’s Investigative Committee said the bomb, triggered by the device placed in a scooter, killed Lt. General Kirillov & his assistant.

Kirillov, who was named the head of Russia’s nuclear defense forces in April 2017, was under sanctions from several countries including the U.K. and Canada for his role in Ukraine.

The bomb was triggered remotely and had the power equivalent to roughly 300g of TNT, Russian state news agency Tass reported, citing unnamed sources in the emergency services. State television footage from the scene showed shattered windows and scorched and blackened brickwork.

“Investigators, forensic experts & operational services are working at the scene,” the committee’s spokesperson said in a statement. Investigative and search activities are being carried out to establish all the circumstances around this crime.” Moscow is treating the bombing as a terrorist attack.

Ukraine’s Security Services, the SBU, charged Kirillov on Dec. 16 with the use of banned chemical weapons during Russia’s military operation in Ukraine that started in Feb. 2022.

In May, the U.S. State Dept said it had recorded the use of chloropicrin, a chemical weapon first used in WWI, against Ukrainian troops. The SBU also said they recorded 4,800+ uses of chemical weapons on the battlefield since Feb 2022, particularly K-1 combat grenades.

On Dec. 9, an explosive device was placed underneath a car in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk, reportedly targeting Sergei Yevsyukov, the head of the Olenivka Prison where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war died in a missile strike in July 2022.

Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Sunday a suspect was arrested and charged with detonating the device. During the almost 3-year operation, Russia has made small but steady territorial gains to the nearly one-fifth of Ukraine it already controls.

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Oh no! Anyways

TIL Russia has violated chemical weapons bans. I really thought I’d have heard more about that…seeing as POSSIBLY having chemical weapons was justification for us to enter Iraq.

Ukraine may have sentenced him in absentia, but it was carried out efficiently and immediately.

Justice has been served here.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.