Just when it didn’t seem like the war between Russia and Ukraine get possibly ratchet things up any further, a top Russian general was killed by Ukraine on Tuesday morning just one day after the country leveled accusations against him of using chemical weapons on the battlefield. Well, if I didn’t know any better, I’d say this guy was being targeted, wouldn’t you?
Russian Gen. Igor Kirillov, who was 54-years-old, has become the highest-ranking general in the nation’s military history to be killed while still inside the country since the war started. The question that everyone is asking now is whether or not President Vladimir Putin will take this very personally and blow a nuke inside Ukraine, escalating the situation into a global one. We’ve been balanced on the head of a pin, waiting for the action that tilts us off the edge into world war iii, and this will do nothing to calm folks’ nerves.
VIDEO: 🇷🇺 Russian army's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow blast
Igor Kirillov was killed in a brazen attack which has been claimed by Kyiv, becoming the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin's campaign in Ukraine drags on#AFPVertical pic.twitter.com/vw0yHF30vz
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) December 17, 2024
Check out more details from The Daily Wire:
Kirillov was the head of Russia’s nuclear, biological, and chemical protection forces and was wanted by Ukraine for his use of the banned chemical weapon chloropicrin against troops in Ukraine. He was sanctioned by the U.S. and the U.K. for using the weapon.
“Kirillov was a war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target, as he gave orders to use banned chemical substances against the Ukrainian military,” a Ukrainian official said in comments given to CNN. “Such an inglorious end awaits all those who kill Ukrainians. Retribution for war crimes is inevitable.”
The report said that there had been nearly 5,000 recorded instances of Russian troops using the illegal chemical weapon under Kirillov’s orders.
. Ukraine has killed other top Russian military officials in targeted assassinations, including two in just the last month. Ukraine’s security services took credit for the assassination of a senior commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Russian-occupied Crimea and the assassination of a senior Russian naval officer who ordered missile strikes on civilian targets.
The line in the sand that has been drawn by Putin has already been violated several times. Ukraine recently carried out long-range missile attacks inside Russia using U.S. weapons. Putin stated not that long ago that if weapons were used in an attack on Russia that were made in the United States, it would result in his considering the West having joined the war on Ukraine’s side. In other words, a third world war will start.
He’s not done anything yet, but after this attack, things are shakier than ever.
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