Moscow, Russia. High-ranking Russian Armed Forces General Igor Kirillov and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov were killed by Ukrainian security services. Kirillov was the head of the nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) defense forces. The day before, the Ukrainian security agency SBU had charged Kirillov, 54, in absentia, stating on Telegram that he was “responsible for the mass use of banned chemical weapons” more than 4,800 times under the general’s leadership. In October, the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Kirillov, saying he had overseen the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine and acted as a “significant mouthpiece for the Kremlin’s disinformation.”
