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Kate Garraway on Good Morning Britain

Kate Garraway announced the show had received some shocking breaking news (Image: ITV)

star announced the show had received some shocking breaking news. 

The presenter, 57, co-hosted Tuesday’s edition (December 17) of the programme alongside . The duo were joined by Sean Fletcher, who was in the studio to deliver other news.

He revealed that Igor Kirillov, head of ‘s nuclear bomb disposals, .

Sean announced: “Breaking news in the past hour. The head of ‘s nuclear defence forces has been killed in an explosion in Moscow.”

Kirillov, 54, was leaving an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospeky when a device hidden in a scooter went off. His assistant was also killed.

The bombing, which triggered an explosion of an estimated 200g of TNT, is believed to have been carried out by a Ukrainian hit squad, with the device detonated remotely.

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Igor Kirillov was killed in an explosion (Image: Getty)

Police have now opened an investigation.

“Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, and his assistant were killed,” ‘s investigative committee said.

“Investigators, forensic experts and operational services are working at the scene. Investigative actions and operational search activities are being carried out aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the crime.”

Photographs posted on Russian Telegram channels showed a destroyed entrance to a building littered with rubble, with two bodies lying in the blood-stained snow.

Kirillov’s death comes one day after Ukrainian prosecutors charged the general with using banned chemical weapons in .

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Sean Fletcher on Good Morning Britain

Sean Fletcher revealed that the Russian general was killed when a device hidden in a scooter went off (Image: ITV)

’s Security Service, the SBU, said that they had recorded more than 4,800 uses of chemical weapons on the battlefield since February 2022.

Kirillov was appointed to head the NBC force in April 2017. According to Russian state-run media outlet Tass, he attended the Kostroma Higher Military Command School of Chemical Defence.

He had also been sanctioned by Britain for the “abhorrent use of inhumane chemical weapons” on the battlefield in .

In a statement announcing the sanctions in October, the UK foreign office said Kirillov was “responsible for helping deploy these barbaric weapons.”

The general was also accused of being “a significant mouthpiece for Kremlin disinformation” and “spreading lies to mask ’s shameful and dangerous behavior”.

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