Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday praised Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service for the killing of top Russian military figures since the start of the war.
Zelenskyy did not make any mention of a car bomb that killed a senior Russian officer last week.
The Kremlin has blamed Ukraine for last Friday’s car bomb outside Moscow that killed Yaroslav Moskalik, 59, deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
Authorities in Kyiv have made no direct comment on the attack on Moskalik, the latest in a series of Russian military officers and pro-war figures killed since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy’s remarks, on the Telegram messaging app, made no reference to any specific instance of Russian military officers being killed.
“The head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence reported on the liquidation of persons from the top command of the Russian armed forces. Justice inevitably is done.
“The head reported on further measures to counter Russian agent networks in Ukraine and saboteurs. Good results. Thank you for your work,”; Zelenskiy said.
Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service claimed responsibility of killing Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, a top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops, last December in Moscow.
At the weekend, a Moscow court ordered a Ukrainian national facing terrorism charges in connection with the attack on Moskalik to be remanded in custody.
