Putin's assassinated cronies: How top Kremlin figures have been picked off by snipers and blown up by exploding statue and e-scooter booby traps in wave of hits since start of Ukraine war
Putin's assassinated cronies: How top Kremlin figures have been picked off by snipers and blown up by exploding statue and e-scooter booby traps in wave of hits since start of Ukraine war
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A peaceful daybreak in a snowy Moscow suburb was shattered this morning when a fatal explosion rang out at the foot of an apartment block. The blast - orchestrated by Ukraine's SBU security service - successfully eliminated Igor Kirillov, one of Vladimir Putin's top army generals in charge of nuclear and biological forces, along with his assistant Ilya Polikarpov.
![[Two bodies can be seen as bystanders watch emergency crews at the scene]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/14/93222257-14201149-Two_bodies_can_be_seen_as_bystanders_watch_emergency_crews_at_th-a-16_1734444596803.jpg)
Shocking images showed their bloodied corpses lying on the snow-covered pavement outside a tower block whose brickwork was left blackened following the small but powerful explosion from a device planted on an electric scooter parked outside. Russian investigators revealed that the lethal charge was triggered remotely after they discovered a camera installed in a nearby rental car pointing at the building's foyer from which Kirillov and his ill-fated assistant emerged.
![[A car erupts in flames amid the assassination of a Russian military officer in Crimea]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/14/93232441-14201149-image-m-18_1734444637881.jpg)
Sources within the SBU confirmed to international press that the perfectly orchestrated hit was indeed the work of Kyiv's operatives. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, described the attack as an attempt by Kyiv to distract public attention from its military failures and vowed that its 'senior military-political leadership will face inevitable retribution.'.
![[Leading Russian missile scientist Mikhail Shatsky, was 'eliminated' in a Moscow park by a gunman amid claims of an assassination by Ukraine's GUR military intelligence directorate.]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/14/93235673-14201149-image-a-38_1734446098849.jpg)
But Kirillov's death is just the latest in a string of recent assassinations of high-ranking Russian scientists, military chiefs and pro-Kremlin politicians both on Russian soil and in occupied Ukraine. What follows is a list of some of the most cold-blooded assassinations of key pro-Russian figures since full-scale war broke out in Ukraine almost three years ago.
![[It's understood that the bomb was hidden inside an electric scooter when it detonated]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/08/93222873-14200411-image-a-28_1734422804632.jpg)
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