Head of Russia’s Nuclear Defense Forces Killed by Scooter Bomb in Moscow

Earlier this week, Ukraine’s security services charged Igor Kirillov with the use of banned chemical weapons.

Igor Kirillov, the chief of the Russian military's nuclear, chemical and biological protection unit, attends a briefing in Kubinka Patriot park, outside Moscow, Russia, on June 22, 2018. AP Photo

The head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, was killed on Dec. 17 by a bomb planted near an apartment block in Moscow.

Russia’s Investigative Committee said that Kirillov’s assistant also died when an explosive device, hidden in a scooter parked near the apartment block, detonated.