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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.
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.
In 1944, the Red Army's Chemical Troops had 19 brigades (14 technical and five chemical protection). After the end of World War II, most of them were disbanded. [3]General Major Vladimir Pikalov (promoted to Colonel General by 1975) commanded the Chemical Troops of the Ministry of Defence from March 1968 to December 1988.
Kirillov’s assassination is the latest in a series of targeted attacks on Russian military personnel. Last month, a senior Black Sea Fleet officer Valery Trankovsky was killed in a car bombing ...
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 ...
Model submarine of Project 613, Balaklava Naval Museum Entrance tunnel to old Soviet submarine base. Old Soviet submarine pen Mine cars, Balaklava Naval Museum. Naval museum complex Balaklava (Ukrainian: Морський музейний комплекс "Балаклава", Russian: Музей холодной войны, "The Cold War Museum", designation K-825) is an underground submarine ...
Igor Kirillov was charged by Kyiv over use of banned chemical weapons in war
In 2013, after initially arriving in Beirut, Lebanon, the PMCs were first transferred to Damascus, Syria and then to a Syrian army base between Latakia and Tartus. [20] [c] [d] The Syrian Ministry of Energy and the Energy Energy Company hired the Slavonic Corps to protect the oil fields in the Deir ez-Zor region between Homs and Deir Ez Zor, but, on 18 October 2013, while traveling from ...