Lieutenant general Igor Kirillov. (ANI) MOSCOW: A top Russian general accused by Ukraine on Monday of being responsible for the use of banned chemical weapons against its troops was assassinated in Moscow on Tuesday morning in the most high-profile killing of its kind since the beginning of the war.Lieutenant general Igor Kirillov (54), who was…
Igor Kirillov, who led the Russian military’s chemical, biological and radiation protection forces, was killed alongside his second-in-command when “an explosive device planted in a scooter parked near the entrance of a residential building was activated on the morning of December 17 on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow, news agency AFP reported quoting officials.According to state…
The US has accused Russia of using chemical weapons, including poison gas, “as a method of warfare” against Ukrainian forces, in violation of a global ban on the use of such weapons.The state department said in a statement on Wednesday that Russia had used chloropicrin, a “choking agent” widely used during World War I, as…
