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A video clip that recorded the assassination of Igor Kirillov, a high-ranking general, gives a few clues about the power and the placement of the explosive device.
Dec. 17, 2024, 3:46 p.m. ET
The doors swing open, and two figures emerge from a nondescript building. A scooter is propped against the front wall. A man identified by Russia as Igor Kirillov, a high-ranking general, takes a few steps forward.
Then the screen, framed by the dash of a car, erupts into a flash of white.
A video that an official with Ukraine’s security service shared with The New York Times and other news outlets, recorded from the interior of a car, appears to show the moment that an explosion killed General Kirillov and an aide as they walked out onto a snowy Moscow street.
General Kirillov oversaw the Russian military’s nuclear and chemical weapons protection forces before he was assassinated on Tuesday.
An official with Ukraine’s security service, known as the S.B.U., said that Kyiv was responsible for the killing.
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The Times verified that the video had been recorded from a vehicle used for short-term rentals and matched the details in the footage with the location and the time of General Kirillov’s killing.
