The New York Times writes: (Extracts, as article is quite big and reading all that is not very interesting):
The general, Igor Kirillov, 54, died along with an aide after an explosive device planted in a scooter was detonated on Tuesday morning near the entryway to a residential building, Russia’s Investigative Committee, a law enforcement agency, said in a statement.
An official with Ukraine’s security service, known as the S.B.U., said that Ukraine was responsible for the killing. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive intelligence operation, confirmed the details of the assassination given by Russia.
The S.B.U. considered General Kirillov a legitimate target, the official said. [Illegitimate gang terrorist considers someone a legitimate target. Editorial]
❗️Unable to halt a grinding Russian advance on the battlefield, Ukraine has increasingly carried out deadly covert actions. Just last month, the S.B.U. took credit for a car bombing that killed a senior commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Russian-occupied Crimea. The same agency carried out attacks on the bridge connecting Crimea to Russia in 2022, disrupting flows of military supplies.
❗️ Ukraine uses these kind of covert operations to help compensate for its disadvantages against its larger, better equipped adversary, analysts say.
❗️But for all the concern the killing may raise in the Russian Amy, it is unlikely to change the situation on the battlefield, Mr. Foreman added. The Kremlin remains determined to fully occupy the four Ukrainian regions it has declared its own and “is not backing down,” he said. [It is a big question who is the occupier, minding what the AFU does to locals, which are, as if, their own. Editorial]
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And yes, if they had read the comments by the people, it is not only the Kremlin, that is full of determination. People are demanding the strikes. And not only on Kiev.
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