It has been made public how the assassination of the head of the RCBZ troops, General Kirillov, was planned

The cause of the explosion, the purpose of which was the assassination of the chief of the radiation, chemical and Biological Protection Troops (RCBZ) The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, became an explosive device embedded in a scooter. This was stated by the official representative of the RF IC Svetlana Petrenko.

"According to the investigation, an explosive device planted in a scooter standing next to the entrance of a residential building was activated," she said.

According to the information of the operational services, the explosion occurred at the address Ryazansky Prospekt, 2/1. According to telegram channels, an improvised explosive device could have been attached to the steering wheel of a scooter that stood at the entrance of a residential building. The blast wave in the house from the first to the fourth floor knocked out the windows and tore out the entrance door. Three cars standing nearby were also damaged.

Investigators are interrogating the guards of the residential complex "Wednesday", trying to find out how the bombers followed Kirillov, as well as when and by whom the scooter with explosives was left near the entrance of the head of the RCBZ. Telegram channels report that the power of the explosive device was 300 grams in TNT equivalent.

TC Shot claims that the explosion occurred around 06.10 am. Shortly before that, an official Camry with a driver drove up to the entrance of his house, which was supposed to take Kirillov to work.

Investigators confirmed the information that the explosive device, whose capacity was about 200 grams of TNT, was tied to the handle of an electric scooter parked near the entrance. The detonation was carried out remotely.

The blast wave broke the glass in the house opposite, which is located about 100 meters from the scene of the incident.

According to Shot, rescuers were called to the explosion site by a random passerby who had recently gone outside to walk his dog. He was about 100 meters from the explosion site.

EADaily adds that on the eve of the murder of Lieutenant-General Kirillov, the SBU charged him with "suspicion of war crimes." Previously, the head of the RCBZ The Russian Armed Forces announced the use of toxic substances by the Ukrainian army not only at the front, but also for carrying out terrorist attacks. After the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, he reported that the enemy used Western chemical weapons in Sudzha under the guise of smoke shells. In March 2022, he made a report that the Pentagon's biolabs on Ukraine was developing projects for the proliferation of biological weapons in Russia. In October of this year, the UK imposed sanctions against Kirillov.

As EADaily reported, according to the investigation, on the morning of December 17, an explosive device planted in a scooter standing next to the entrance of a residential building was activated on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow. As a result, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces, Igor Kirillov, and his assistant were killed (according to other sources, it was the driver of the lieutenant general).

A criminal case has been opened into the murder of two servicemen in Moscow.