A top Russian general was assassinated in Moscow Tuesday morning by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces, was killed with his assistant outside an apartment building by an explosive device hidden inside an electric scooter.
A senior Russian security official, said Ukraine faced “inevitable retaliation” for the assassination of Kirillov, Russian state media reported.