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Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who was chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, is the most senior Russian officer to be killed inside Russia by Ukraine.
Igor Anatolyevich Kirillov (Russian: Игорь Анатольевич Кириллов; 13 July 1970 – 17 December 2024) was a Russian lieutenant general. [1] He was the head of the Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Defense Troops of the Russian Armed Forces until his assassination in 2024 by Ukrainian security forces.
Kirillov, 54, was the highest-ranking Russian military figure to die outside the battlefield since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago.
Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed Russia’s radiological, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed by a remotely detonated bomb planted in an electric scooter outside an apartment ...
On 19 January 1944, the division was renamed the 100th Guards Rifle Division and its component brigades renamed the 298th, 301st and 304th Guards Rifle Regiments. In addition to this core strength, the division had two artillery regiments and various complementary contingents, including communications. By mid-1944, its strength reached 12,000 men.
The Military Chemical Academy of the Red Army was created in accordance with the resolution Council of Labor and Defense and by direct order of the Revolutionary Military Council on 13 May 1932, on the basis of the military chemical department of the Military Technical Academy of the Red Army and the 2nd Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology ...
PHOTO: A view of the blast scene, which killed the commander of Russian armed forces' chemical, biological and radiation defence troops, Igor Kirillov, outside a residential building on Ryazansky ...
A top Russian general in charge of Russia’s nuclear defense forces was killed on Tuesday by a bomb hidden inside his scooter. Russia’s Investigative Committee confirmed the death of Lt. Gen ...