The Ukrainian state outlet Ukrinform, citing government sources, reported on Tuesday that the State Security Service (SBU) of Ukraine was responsible for the assassination of Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in Moscow that morning.
Kirillov and an aide, identified in Russian media as Ilya Polikarpov, died on Tuesday morning in an explosion in Moscow, reportedly while waiting for their commute to work, when a bomb went off near them. Reports indicate that 300 grams of TNT was hidden in an electric scooter placed near a site where the apparent targets regularly convened to go to work.
Ukrainian state media indicated that the apartment building near where the explosion occurred was not connected to a gas line and that the explosion was exclusively the product of the detonation of a weapon hidden in an electric scooter. It also published videos of the site in the…
