[Russia] - U.S. Says Not Involved in Killing of Russian General Behind ‘& lsquo; Atrocities'

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The United States stated Tuesday it was not associated with the killing of a senior Russian army officer in an operation declared by
Ukraine, however knocked his atrocities
I can inform you that the United States was not familiar with it in advance and was not included, State Department representative Matthew
Miller said of the killing of Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian armys chemical weapons division.But Miller indicated earlier U.S
assessments that Kirillov the senior-most Russian military figure assassinated considering that Moscow attacked Ukraine had actually ordered
making use of riot control representatives on the battlefield in offense of the Chemical Weapons Convention
He was a general who was involved in a variety of atrocities
He was associated with the use of chemical weapons versus [the] Ukrainian military, Miller said.Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria
Zakharova implicated Ukraines Western allies of being accomplices to the brazen assassination in Moscow.A U.S
official, speaking earlier on condition of privacy, said that the United States was not familiar with the operation in advance and we do
not support or make it possible for these kinds of activities
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