{"id":164455,"date":"2024-12-17T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=164455"},"modified":"2024-12-17T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:35:56","slug":"ukraine-counts-chem-bio-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=164455","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Counts Chem-Bio Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-164456 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kirillov-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kirillov-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kirillov.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>LTG Igor Anatolyevich Kirillov<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>A top Russian general is killed in a Moscow bombing claimed by Ukraine<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine\u2019s security service leveled criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the service carried out the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military\u2019s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed as he left for his office. Kirillov\u2019s assistant also died in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Kirillov, 54, was under sanctions from several countries, including the U.K. and Canada, for his actions in Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine. On Monday, Ukraine\u2019s Security Service, or SBU, opened a criminal investigation against him, accusing him of directing the use of banned chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p>An official with the SBU said the agency was behind the attack. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information, described Kirillov as a \u201cwar criminal and an entirely legitimate target.\u201d<br \/>\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\nSince Russia invaded, several prominent figures have been killed in targeted attacks believed to have been carried out by Ukraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-explosion-head-of-nuclear-defense-forces-killed-9656bce946a9f552454df9debe5fbd18\">AP News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kirillov is the most senior Russian military official to be killed in Moscow since Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago. He was leading radioactive chemical and biological defense troops known as the RKhBZ. These forces are trained to operate under conditions of NBC contamination and are tasked with protecting ground forces operating in such extreme conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A day before the attack, he was sentenced by Ukrainian prosecutors in absentia with the alleged use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine said. Swift justice?<\/p>\n<p>For the record a LTG in the Russian military is a two-star rank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTG Igor Anatolyevich Kirillov A top Russian general is killed in a Moscow bombing claimed by &hellip; <a title=\"Ukraine Counts Chem-Bio Coup\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=164455\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ukraine Counts Chem-Bio Coup<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":164456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}