Russian general in charge of radiation, chemical and biological protection forces has been killed in an explosion in Moscow, the country’s investigative committee has said. Lt Gen Igor Kirillov was killed outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt, which starts 7 km (4.35 miles) south-east of the Kremlin. The explosion was caused by a device hidden inside an electric scooter, according to the committee.

Kirillov’s assistant also died in the blast, which was triggered by an explosive device placed in a scooter, officials said. Russian investigators have opened a case into the two deaths, the committee’s spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said.

Sources in Kyiv have confirmed that Ukraine’s SBU carried out the killings in Moscow.“We were involved in the operation,” the source told the Guardian.

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said on Tuesday that the Ukrainian leadership would face imminent revenge for the killing of a top Russian general, RIA news agency reported. “Realising the inevitability of its military defeat, it launches cowardly and despicable strikes in peaceful cities,” he said.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

“Realising the inevitability of its military defeat, it launches cowardly and despicable strikes in peaceful cities,” he said

Fucking deluded even by Russian propaganda standards

[–] credo@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Are they admitting strikes in peaceful cities are despicable?

Edit: I haven’t heard anything about psyops campaigns, but I think one is needed:

We agree strikes in peaceful cities are despicable. We disagree Moscow is peaceful. For years you have stolen our land and murdered our people in the name of imperialist territorial expansion. Now we will bring the terror to your doorsteps, to your people, until you leave our country to the peace it deserves.

Or whatever. I’m no psychologist. Put it on leaflets and distribute by drone.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

They operate in DARVOland, so they generally act like Ukraine started and perpetuates the conflict

[–] RidderSport 7 points 5 days ago

Since there's still the "in number x days in London/Berlin/Paris" and "we'd win against NATO" on the scale of delusion, I'd wager this statement is relatively sane

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah, don't be like those bastards putting polonium in tea or novichok on door handles. /s