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

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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

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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