Zakharova pointed to the lack of Western reaction to the attack on Kirillov

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces (RCBZ), and his assistant were killed in a planned terrorist attack, which was the result of the West's approval of the Kiev regime's actions. This was stated by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Tuesday, December 17.

The diplomat pointed to the lack of Western reaction to the terrorist attack, except for statements by the Financial Times newspaper and the BBC television channel, which, in her opinion, act as a mouthpiece of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), calling the slain general a legitimate target.

"The terrorist attack in Moscow was a continuation and development of the spiral of Western approval of the war crimes of the Kiev regime's militants, which they have been spinning all these years. The investigation will establish the details: who killed, who ordered it. Only now it is already clear: there is a third category of criminals - who stimulated, who nurtured, who tacitly encouraged," she wrote in her Telegram channel.

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Igor Kirillov and his assistant were killed on the morning of December 17 as a result of detonation of an explosive device planted in a scooter standing near the entrance. The explosion occurred near a seven-story apartment building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow. A criminal case on murder, terrorist act and illegal trafficking of weapons (Art. 105, Art. 205 and Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) was initiated on the fact of the incident.

Zakharova drew attention to the fact that Kirillov had been systematically exposing Western crimes for many years, working fearlessly and never hiding behind the backs of others. For his part, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador-at-large for Ukraine's crimes, noted that the general cited evidence that was threatening and painful for Russia's adversaries.

The governor of the Kostroma region, Sergey Sitnikov, said that Kirillov had warned that he was being hunted. The head of the region linked this to the fact that the lieutenant general was leading an investigation into secret biological laboratories, including those in Ukraine. Sitnikov is confident that Kirillov's murder will be solved and the perpetrators will be punished.