Ukraine Kills Russia's Nuke Boss Igor Kirillov in Moscow

Ukraine Kills Russia's Nuke Boss Igor Kirillov in Moscow

🔥The head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons division has died after an explosive device attached to a scooter went off outside an apartment building in Moscow, in the most brazen targeted assassination of a senior military official since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Igor Kirillov, the head of the military’s chemical, biological and radiological weapons unit, was killed along with his deputy when the blast went off as the two men left a building in a residential area in south-east Moscow early on Tuesday. Kirillov, who was placed under sanctions by Britain in October over the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, is the most senior Russian military official to be killed in a targeted assassination away from the frontlines since the start of Kremlin’s offensive in Ukraine nearly three years ago. Moscow has not yet identified who was responsible for the attack, but the blame is likely to be directed at Ukraine’s leadership. Reuters and Agence France-Presse, citing a Ukrainian security source, reported that Kyiv was behind the attack.

💭 Washington Post: CIA-Supported Ukrainian Intel Behind Murder of Darya Dugina

Russia’s Federal Security Service’s (FSB) claim that the assassination of Darya Dugina, the daughter of the political philosopher and ideologue Aleksandr Dugin, had been “prepared and perpetrated by the Ukrainian special services” appears to have been confirmed days ago by a report published days ago by The Washington Post.

Citing unnamed “security officials with knowledge of the operation,” the report, titled “Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia,” states that Ukrainian intelligence operatives used a secret compartment inside a cat crate to smuggle bomb components into Russia; parts that were used to produce the car bomb that murdered Dugina in the summer of 2022.

The article, which details how the CIA since 2015 has invested millions of dollars to bolster Ukraine’s special services and transform them into “potent allies against Moscow,” is based on dozens of interviews with former Ukrainian, U.S., and Western intelligence and security officials. All spoke on the condition of anonymity in light of security concerns.

The report claims that the CIA has provided the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU) and its military counterpart, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (GUR) with advanced surveillance systems and trained recruits at sites inside of Ukraine as well as the United States. The U.S. intelligence agency also established new headquarters for divisions in the GUR and bolstered its intelligence-sharing operations, according to The Washington Post.