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Ukrainian security services have killed a senior Russian general in charge of nuclear protection forces in Moscow today, intelligence sources in Kyiv have claimed.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt after a bomb hidden in an electric scooter detonated.
In a statement to the Financial Times, an intelligence source described Kirillov as a “completely legitimate target”.
He was sanctioned by Britain in October for his battlefield involvement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
“Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, and his assistant were killed,” the investigative committee said.
His death comes a day after Ukrainian prosecutors charged him with the alleged use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine war.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said the Ukrainian leadership faces imminent revenge for the “cowardly and despicable strikes”, the RIA state news agency reported.
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2Rivers said in a statement: “Coral/2Rivers Energy is deeply disappointed by the decision of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development Office (FCDO) to impose sanctions.”
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Britain has sanctioned 20 ships for allegedly carrying illicit Russian oil, its latest measures targeting Russia’s so-called shadow fleet in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The British government also said in a statement that it had imposed sanctions on 2Rivers DMCC and 2Rivers PTE LTD, alleging they enabled the trading of Russian oil.
2Rivers said in a statement: “Coral/2Rivers Energy is deeply disappointed by the decision of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development Office (FCDO) to impose sanctions.”
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