{"id":9281,"date":"2024-12-17T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=9281"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:21:03","slug":"if-this-high-ranking-general-killed-in-moscow-is-a-legitimate-target-the-so-is-the-entire-ukrainian-military-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=9281","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>If this high-ranking General killed in Moscow is &#8216;a legitimate target&#8217;, the so is the entire Ukrainian military leadership.<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9282\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-11.18.57-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-11.18.57-AM.png 565w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-17-at-11.18.57-AM-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A high-ranking general in the Russian armed forces and his assistant have been killed in Moscow by Ukraine&#8217;s security service, a Ukrainian source has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Defence Forces (NBC), was outside a residential block early on Tuesday when a device hidden in a scooter was detonated remotely, Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee (SK) said.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm2ek388yxzo\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm2ek388yxzo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}