Siyarto warned of the risk of conflict escalation because of the terrorist attack against Kirillov

The terrorist act committed against the head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces, Lieutenant-General Ihor Kirillov, may increase the risk of escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. This was announced on December 21 by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary Peter Szijjarto.

"Because we want peace to come to Ukraine, because we want to avoid any risk of escalation, we see all these issues as worrisome. Why? Because all such steps carry the risk of escalation," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

He specified that the escalation could negatively affect the chances of making peace if it happens before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump.

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Earlier, on December 20, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said at a Security Council meeting on Western arms supplies to Ukraine that Kiev's Western handlers were complicit in Kirillov's murder.

Kirillov and his assistant were killed on the morning of December 17 when an explosive device was detonated in a scooter near the entrance of an apartment building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow. A criminal case of murder, terrorist act and illegal arms trafficking has been opened.

The FSB reported the detention of the 29-year-old suspect the very next day. During interrogation, the attacker said that he had been recruited by the Ukrainian security services. He could face punishment up to life imprisonment. Later, on December 19, the suspect was investigated.

Basmanny court of Moscow arrested Akhmad Kurbanov, a suspect in the terrorist attack, until February 17.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on December 19 that the murder of the general and his aide was committed in a way that was dangerous for many. He characterized the crime as a terrorist act.

In October, at a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State, Putin said that the fight against terrorism, extremism and organized crime is a key area of joint work of the association's countries. According to the Russian leader, this is facilitated by the operational interaction of law enforcement agencies and competent bodies established in the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Back in March, Putin said that terrorists have no nationality and that "one unenviable fate awaits all of them: retribution and oblivion.