Russian general assassinated in front of his home; Moscow vows to avenge death of officer who blew the whistle on U.S. biolabs operating in Ukraine

Ukraine claims credit for targeted assassination of Lt. General Igor Kirillov but this bears all the hallmarks of CIA hit job, further stoking WWIII

Reuters reports that a top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine's SBU intelligence service on Tuesday morning near his residence.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, 54, (pictured above) was chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops. He was killed outside an apartment building along with his assistant when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter went off, according to Russia's top criminal Investigative Committee.

The scooter containing an improvised explosive device was remotely detonated, killing both Kirillov and his aide as they stepped out of a building on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow, Russian media reported.

A source within the Ukrainian secret police, or SBU, told Reuters that it was behind the hit, stating “The liquidation of the chief of the radiation and chemical protection troops of the Russian Federation is the work of the SBU.”

The U.K.-based…