Dmitry Medvedev: "Kyiv will face imminent revenge for killing of Russian general"

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on December 17, that the Ukrainian leadership would face imminent revenge for the killing of a top Russian general.

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on December 17, that the Ukrainian leadership would face imminent revenge for the killing of a top Russian general.

"Despite the fact that the investigation has just begun, our enemies have already rushed to publish information about their involvement. In any case, the investigators must find the killers in Russia. And we must do everything to destroy the patrons who are in Kyiv. In any case, this is a very sad incident. I propose to honour the memory of our colleague, our comrade.", he said at a meeting of senior Russian officials.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who was chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside an apartment building in Moscow along with his assistant, Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes serious crimes, said earlier on Tuesday. A source in the Security Service of Ukraine said it had killed him.

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