WASHINGTON, December 17. /TASS/. The US Department of State claims that Washington had nothing to do with the fatal bombing attack on Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov.
When asked to comment on the issue during a regular press briefing, US Department of State Spokesperson Matthew Miller said: "I don’t have any assessment. It’s not something that we were involved in."
"I can tell you that the United States was not aware of it in advance and was not involved," he added.
Earlier, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev described the attack as "the agony of the Banderite regime" and as the Kiev government’s attempt "to justify its shaky existence in the eyes of its Western patrons and prolong the deadly hostilities." He also said that the Kiev regime had admitted its role in plotting the terrorist attack.
In the morning of December 17, an explosive device planted in a scooter exploded near the entrance of a residential building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow. Kirillov, 54, and his aide were killed in the blast. The Russian Investigative Committee classified the explosion as a terrorist attack.