(AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov) Investigators work at the place where Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces and his assistant, seen at lower ...

Russia said on Wednesday it had detained a man from Uzbekistan over the killing of a senior Russian general and his assistant in Moscow a day earlier. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed Russia’s ...

Ukraine carried out one of its most audacious operations on Russian soil early Tuesday, killing the commander of the unit designed to protect Russia’s troops from chemical, radiological and ...

The spokeswoman said he had confessed that Ukrainian intelligence agencies recruited him to kill General Kirillov, 54, who was in charge of the Russian military’s nuclear and chemical weapons ...

The general had faced sanctions for using chemical weapons in Ukraine. By The New York Times Igor Kirillov, a general in charge of Russia’s military’s nuclear and chemical weapons protection ...