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Ukraine says it killed senior Russian general who died in scooter blast
BBC ^ | Dec 17 | BBC

Posted on 12/17/2024 1:11:08 AM PST by RandFan

Summary

Ukraine says it killed a Russian general who died in an explosion in Moscow on Tuesday morning

Lt Gen Igor Kirillov was at the entrance to a residential block when a device hidden in an electric scooter went off

Sources in the Ukrainian security services tell the BBC Kirillov was a "legitimate target"

On Monday, Kirillov was charged in Kyiv for the use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine

Kirillov had already been sanctioned by the UK, and others, for his role in Russia's use of chemical weapons

The bomb was remotely operated and contained around 300g of explosives, Russian state media reports

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
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1 posted on 12/17/2024 1:11:08 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Good riddance to a murderous monster!


2 posted on 12/17/2024 1:13:02 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: RandFan

Putin doesn’t seem to have read Sun-Tzu —> a long war is bad for both sides.


3 posted on 12/17/2024 1:26:34 AM PST by Cronos
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To: RandFan

Both sides have accused the other of using chemical weapons. So far, I have seen no hard proof either side has used them.

https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2024/05/statement-ukraine-opcw-spokesperson

Other news outlets are reporting his assistant was also killed in the blast:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-explosion-head-of-nuclear-defense-forces-killed-9656bce946a9f552454df9debe5fbd18


4 posted on 12/17/2024 1:35:05 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: CatHerd

Russia has used chemical weapons, it’s been well-documented

Ukraine hasn’t, because that’s a condition of it receiving Western aid, so it’s closely monitored

Russia naturally accuses Ukraine of everything that Russia is actually doing itself ... typical lying dictatorship


5 posted on 12/17/2024 1:50:01 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: canuck_conservative

Well documented by whom?

Yes, our State Department has “determined” that, but apparently based solely on Ukrainian allegations:

https://www.the-trench.org/chloropicrin-in-ukrainian-war-3

Sorry, I’ve seen breathless allegations of chemical weapons and use of white phosphorus in other wars where the belligerents wanted “the international community” to condemn the other side. When international teams investigated, it always turned out to be false. Funny how they haven’t invited OPCW to investigate.


6 posted on 12/17/2024 2:02:42 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: CatHerd

“Funny how they haven’t invited OPCW to investigate”

Read this -

“OPCW Investigation Confirms Russia’s Likely Use of Chemical Weapons Against Ukraine”

“Russia’s consistent denials that its military forces have deployed illegal chemical weapons in Ukraine were dealt a serious blow on November 18, when the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced that it had recently conducted a Technical Assistance Visit to Ukraine and established evidence of chemical weapons use....

The laboratories independently confirmed “that the grenade and soil samples collected from the trench contain the riot control agent 2-Chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile, known as CS.” The OPCW underscored that under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, “the use of riot control agents as a method of warfare is prohibited.”

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/policy_briefs/2024/11/19/opcw-investigation-confirms-russias-likely-use-of-chemical-weapons-against-ukraine/


7 posted on 12/17/2024 2:08:32 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: Cronos

Putin believed what his corrupt, dishonest generals told him, that it would be over so fast and so easy that he didn’t even have to call it a war, and that the Ukrainians would greet the Russian troops as liberators. Two years later, here we are.

Arms manufacturers are making off like bandits, though.


8 posted on 12/17/2024 2:19:08 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: canuck_conservative

Okay, that’s new to me. Thanks. So they finally brought in OPCW. Here is the actual OPCW report:

https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2024/11/opcw-issues-report-its-technical-assistance-visit-ukraine-following

So they determined the Russians had used tear gas (presumably to clear the trench) in that instance. Very naughty and against international law. Before we get too high on our horses, though, let’s not forget we used thousands of tons of tear gas in Vietnam.


9 posted on 12/17/2024 2:26:34 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: RandFan

Breaking News? More like Breaking Wind.


10 posted on 12/17/2024 2:28:32 AM PST by McGruff
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To: RandFan

Scooter drone.


11 posted on 12/17/2024 2:30:48 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: McGruff

Your tears of frustration taste delicious


12 posted on 12/17/2024 2:37:48 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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Bomb kills head of Russia’s nuclear defense forces and his assistant in Moscow

https://nypost.com/2024/12/17/world-news/a-bomb-kills-the-head-of-russias-nuclear-defense-forces-and-his-assistant-in-moscow/


13 posted on 12/17/2024 2:37:49 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: CatHerd

“Well documented by whom?”

The UK had previously placed sanctions on Lt Gen Kirillov for the use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine.


14 posted on 12/17/2024 2:37:50 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: canuck_conservative

Kind of like our DemonRATs?


15 posted on 12/17/2024 2:43:30 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: BeauBo

They placed the sanctions based on Ukrainian allegations, not evidence, before the OPCW investigation of that tear gas incident in late September of this year. See my #9 on this thread:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4284920/posts?page=9#9


16 posted on 12/17/2024 2:44:49 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: RandFan

if Uke children are a kidnapping target...
so is this guy


17 posted on 12/17/2024 2:48:49 AM PST by RockyTx
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To: Libloather

Scooters have lithium batteries. Lithium blows up real good.


18 posted on 12/17/2024 2:54:06 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Trump will make Ukraine surrender or no more $Billions for them.


19 posted on 12/17/2024 2:56:04 AM PST by McGruff
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To: RandFan

What if the headlines read:

“Chief Russian investigator of US Biolabs project in Ukraine, linked to Hunter Biden investment company, assassinated in Moscow”


20 posted on 12/17/2024 3:21:53 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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