General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s Nuclear Defense Forces, dies in a bomb attack in Moscow

A high-ranking general of the Russian armed forces died this Tuesday in an explosion in Moscow. This is Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov (54 years old), head of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces (NBC) of Russia.

Kirillov was leaving a block of flats early in the morning when a device hidden in a scooter exploded in its pathaccording to the Russian investigative committee.

Investigators point out that the explosive device, with a power equivalent to 300 grams of trilite, was hidden in the scooter, parked next to the portal of the residential building, located on Riazanki Avenue, in the southeast of the Russian capital.

Sources of the investigation, cited by the digital edition of the newspaper Kommersantpoint to the Ukrainian secret services as the possible perpetrators of the attack, according to reports Efe.

His assistant also died in the attack. “The head of radiological, chemical and biological protection of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Igor Kirillov, and his assistant have been murdered,” the Russian investigative committee said.

In photographs published on Russian Telegram channels you can see that the entrance to the housing block is completely destroyed and full of rubble. And on the ground two corpses appear lying in the snow, where traces of blood can be seen.

Russian authorities have opened a criminal case to investigate what happenedas reported Reuters.

Las Fuerzas de Defensa Nuclear, Biológica y Química de Rusia, conocidas como RKhBZ, son fuerzas especiales que operan en condiciones de contaminación radioactiva, química y biológica.

Este mismo lunes, los fiscales ucranianos acusaron a Kirillov en ausencia por haber ordenado el presunto uso de armas químicas prohibidas en Ucrania, según informó el Servicio de Seguridad de Ucrania, una información que publicaba el diario Kyiv Independent. Acusaciones que Rusia negó de forma tajante.

En octubre, el Reino Unido impuso sanciones a Kirillov, alegando que había supervisado el uso de armas químicas en Ucrania y que había actuado como “un importante portavoz de la desinformación del Kremlin”.