LIVE war Ukraine | Top soldier and deputy killed in attack in Moscow

A senior Russian army official was killed in a bomb attack outside a residential building in southeastern Moscow early Tuesday morning. This was reported by the Commission of Inquiry, responsible for the most important investigations in the country. “The commander of the Russian Radiological, Chemical and Biological Forces, Igor Kirillov, and his deputy were killed,” it said. Kirillov was convicted in absentia by a Ukrainian court on Monday for using banned chemical weapons during the war. Read all about the war in Ukraine and the situation in Russia in the live blog below.

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