Russian general Igor Kirillov has been buried with full military honours.
Kirillov, who was chief of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, was the most senior Russian officer to be killed inside Russia by Ukraine.
He was killed outside his Moscow apartment building on Tuesday along with his assistant when a bomb attached to an electric scooter went off in an attack for which Ukraine’s SBU security service took responsibility.
Today, state news agency RIA said Kirillov was buried in a ceremony outside Moscow attended by defence minister Andrei Belousov and Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council.
It said the ceremony had taken place at a defence ministry memorial complex.
Six killed and 13 wounded in Kursk attack
We can bring you more updates from the town of Rylsk in the Kursk region, where reports have been emerging of a Ukrainian missile strike.
The region’s acting governor, Alexander Khinshtein, has said six people, including one child, have been killed in the attack.
Ten people have also been wounded, including a 13-year-old, Mr Khinshtein added on Telegram.
“What happened today is a huge tragedy for all of us,” he said.
“We grieve together with the families of the victims. No one will be left without support.”
The governor said those responsible for the attack would receive “well-deserved retribution”.
Elsewhere, Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, has said Moscow will raise the issue of the missile strike at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council today, the TASS state news agency reports.
Ukrainian troops still hold part of Kursk region after bursting across the border in a surprise incursion this August.
But yesterday, Vladimir Putin said during his annual press conference that they would definitely be expelled, but declined to set a date for when this would happen.
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