Suspect arrested in murder of General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s biological and chemical forces in Moscow blast Blogging Sole

Moscow — Russian security services announced Wednesday that they had arrested a suspect in the murder of a high-ranking general in Moscow. The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services. Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, did not name the suspect, but said he was born in 1995. According to … Read more

Ukraine claims to be behind Moscow explosion that killed head of Russian nuclear defense forces Blogging Sole

Moscow — The head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, was killed along with his deputy on Tuesday morning in an explosion in Moscow, the Russian Investigative Committee announced. Ukrainian security sources told CBS News that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) killed Kirillov during a special operation. This … Read more

Sudan’s civil war sees RSF forces raping women and girls with shocking ‘scale and scale’, rights group says Blogging Sole

Johannesburg — The Sudan Rapid Support Forces, a camp in a civil war which tore the African nation apart for over a year and created one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planetare accused of raping numerous women and girls and using some as sex slaves in a new Human Rights Watch report. The … Read more