Video shows moment when Russian general killed in Moscow

The moment of the explosion that killed the head of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops of the Armed Forces of Russia Igor Kirillov and his assistant was captured on video.

The dash cam footage shows two men — presumably, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov — stepping out of the building a few seconds before the bomb explodes.

The explosion near the entrance of a residential building on Ryazansky Prospekt occurred early in the morning of Tuesday, December 17.

It was previously reported that Kirillov's murder could be the work of either the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) or special services of the West. According to Reuters, though, the SBU claimed responsibility for the terrorist act.

Kirillov was hunted for

General Kirillov, who was killed in Moscow in the morning of December 17, earlier said that a “hunt had begun” for him, Kostroma region Governor Sergei Sitnikov said.

“Not that long ago, he told me that he had been warned that a hunt had begun for him. Without a doubt, this is due to the fact that it was under his leadership when information about secret biological laboratories was uncovered, including on the territory of Ukraine," the governor said. 

During his briefings, Kirillov accused the United States of implementing military biological programs on the territory of Ukraine. In particular, Kirillov claimed that Washington was creating “artificial foci of natural focal infections” using mosquitoes and ticks. At one of the briefings, Kirillov said that the United States had created a “pandemic preparation department” and was preparing a new pandemic “by mutating viruses.”