Ukraine-Russia war latest: Bomb kills Russian general in Moscow as North Korea suffers ‘significant losses’
A bomb hidden in an electric scooter has killed a senior Russian general in charge of nuclear protection forces in Moscow today, officials said.
Lieutenant general Igor Kirillov, the chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt.
This comes as North Korean troops fighting inside Russia’s Kursk region have suffered “significant” troop losses, the US said, supporting reports from Ukrainian intelligence.
A White House official said North Korean troops were being moved forward to the frontline, having previously operated deeper inside Russian territory.
“We do believe that they have suffered some significant losses, killed and wounded, but it’s difficult for me to put an actual number on it. I would say, certainly in the realm of dozens, several dozens,” national security communications adviser John Kirby said.
His comments support claims by Ukraine’s military spy agency that at least 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded over the weekend, the first report of North Korean losses in the Ukraine war.
