DISINFO: The West killed General Kirillov to cover up its crimes in Syria and Ukraine
SUMMARY
The murder in Moscow of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defence troops, is directly related to his consistent exposing of Washington's crimes... The Russian military leader, killed at the behest of the Americans, had a huge array of evidence on the crimes of the White House and their henchmen in Syria. The elimination of the general was necessary for the US elites to prevent further revelations of their illegal activities... US activities in Ukraine have also become the subject of close analysis by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov. At briefings, he constantly stated about American biological activity in the territories controlled by Kyiv ... The development and organisation of the terrorist attack is the work of the CIA. In the last months of its power, the Biden administration is trying to eliminate as many witnesses to its crimes in different countries as possible.
RESPONSE
Recurring disinformation narrative from pro-Kremlin outlets about biological laboratories in Ukraine. The article also promotes a recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about biological weapons being secretly developed by the US in countries bordering Russia. Both claims were made in the context of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the assassination of Russian General Kirillov on December 17, 2024.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Armed Forces' radiation, chemical, and biological defence troops, was killed in Moscow on December 17, 2024. The United States denies any involvement in his assassination. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stressed that the US was not involved in the special operation. But he added that Kirillov "was a general who was involved in a number of atrocities. He was involved in the use of chemical weapons against the Ukrainian military…a unit under his command has used riot agents in violation of international law on the battlefield."
Ukraine has not officially claimed responsibility for the killing of the Russian general, but sources in Ukrainian law enforcement agencies confirmed to journalists that the special operation to liquidate Kirillov was carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Day before the assassination, on December 16, 2024, the SBU reported in absentia about suspicions against a Russian general who ordered the use of banned chemical weapons against the Defence Forces of Ukraine.
In March 2024, the 105th session of the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was held. One of the topics of the meeting was the use of chemical weapons in the war against Ukraine. Members of the OPCW Council noted an increasing flow of data that Russia is actively using toxic substances in the war against Ukraine. According to reports submitted to the OPCW, Russia is actively using so-called “riot control agents” against Ukrainian defence forces - chemical compounds that temporarily make people unable to function by causing irritation to the eyes, mouth, throat, lungs, and skin. Read the full text in our material "Ukraine uses chemical weapons against Russia".
In October 2024, the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Kirillov for using riot control agents and over multiple reports of the use of the toxic choking agent chloropicrin in Ukraine.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that Pentagon report on biological threats is an excuse for offensive biolabs, that Russia presented evidence of US biolabs in Ukraine at the convention on biological weapons, that new evidence of US military-biological activity emerged in Ukraine, that disease outbreaks in Ukraine are linked to the activity of US biolabs, that Zelenskyy ordered the destruction of evidence regarding the development of biological weapons, or that bio-experiments in US labs turned Ukrainian soldiers into ‘most cruel monsters’.
Also see cases of Russia's use of banned chemicals in Syria: Western and Ukrainian intelligence agencies are preparing false flag chemical weapons attacks in Syria, White Helmets have staged the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Syria does not possess any chemical weapons , West uses Goebbels' methods to put pressure on Syria, Douma chemical attack never took place.