The head of the Russian army's chemical weapons division has been killed in a brazen attack in Moscow claimed by Kyiv -- the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin's campaign in Ukraine drags on.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Igor Kirillov was killed along with his assistant when an explosive device attached to a scooter went off outside an apartment building in the southeast of the Russian capital, Russian and Ukrainian officials said.
The attack took place in a residential area a day after President Vladimir Putin boasted of Russian troop successes in Ukraine, nearly three years after the Kremlin sent soldiers into its pro-Western neighbour.
Kirillov, 54, was the head of the Russian army's chemical, biological and radiological weapons unit and in October was sanctioned by Britain over the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine.
A source in Ukraine's SBU security service told AFP it was behind the explosion in what it called a "special operation", calling Kirillov a "war criminal."
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