Big explosion in Moscow, senior Russian general killed
A spokesman for the emergency services in Moscow revealed on December 17 that the power of the explosive device in the incident killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov - Commander of the Radiation and Chemical Defense Forces of the Russian armed forces.
"According to preliminary information, about 200 grams of TNT were used in the explosion on Ryazanskiy Prospekt," the spokesman said.
The force of the blast shattered windows in the house opposite. The courtyard was cordoned off while investigators were at the scene on the morning of December 17. A resident living near the site of the explosion said she heard a loud bang at 6:12 a.m. local time (10:12 a.m. Hanoi time).
Kirillov, 54, died along with an aide in an improvised explosive device explosion in Moscow. He had held the post since 2017, participating in the development and deployment of the TOS-2 Tosochka heavy flamethrower system. Kirillov was placed on a Western sanctions list for his participation in special operations.
In March 2022, Kirillov presented to the Defense Ministry that the Pentagon's biological laboratories in Ukraine were developing projects to spread biological weapons into Russian territory through bats and birds. He cited documents from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health with instructions for destroying pathogenic microorganisms as evidence.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, recalled that Mr. Kirillov has been exposing the crimes of the Anglo-Saxons and NATO provocations for many years.