A top Russian general is killed in a Moscow bombing claimed by Ukraine

A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the service carried out the attack.

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed as he left for his office. Kirillov’s assistant also died in the attack.

A body lies at the place where Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces was killed by an explosive device planted close to a residential apartment’s block in Moscow,

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