First Thing: Russian general killed in Moscow blast as Ukraine claims responsibility

Good morning. The head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons division, Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, was killed on Tuesday when an explosive device attached to a scooter went off outside an apartment building in Moscow. Kirillov, who was placed under sanctions by Britain in October over the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, is the most senior Russian military official to be killed in such a blast in Moscow since Russia’s full-scale invasion...