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The head of Russia’s nuclear defense forces has been killed in an explosion in Moscow
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Original Publication Date: December 16, 2024 10:36PM
Publication Updated: April 11, 2025 5:34AM
MOSCOW (AP) — Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces, was killed early Tuesday by an explosive device planted close to a residential apartment block in Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
Kirillov’s assistant also died in the blast.
Kirillov had been sentenced in absentia by a Ukrainian court Monday for the use of banned chemical weapons during Russia’s invasion of the country.
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