Russia's Defence Ministry has claimed that its air defence units shot down 42 drones over five Russian oblasts on the night of 21-22 December. Source: Russia's Defence Ministry Quote: "On-duty air defence assets have destroyed 42 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles overnight.

Akhmadzhon Kurbonov was ordered detained by a Moscow court in the scooter bombing that killed Russian Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov. Ukraine had claimed responsibility for attack.

The killing of a senior Russian general in a bombing outside his apartment building in Moscow was the boldest assassination yet of a top military officer and it again brought the war in Ukraine to the streets of the capital.

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian intelligence agency said Wednesday that it has detained a suspect in the killing of a senior general in Moscow. The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services.

Russia's ballistic missile attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, killed at least one person; a Ukrainian attack on Russian border town killed six, officials say.

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden on an electric scooter outside his apartment building.

The head of Russia's chemical and biological forces, Lt. General Igor Kirillov, was killed in a Moscow bomb blast claimed by Ukraine.

Igor Kirillov had overseen the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine and regularly spread disinformation about the West developing bioweapons prior to being killed on Dec. 17.