Leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF) and former Minister Wimal Weerawansa has questioned the failure on the part of the United Nations to condemn the assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Armed Forces’ chemical, biological and radiological protection force. The former lawmaker said that the assassination should be categorised as an act of terrorism.

The following is the text of the letter sent by the NFF Leader on 21 Dec., addressed to UN Secretary General António Guterres: “On December 17, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Armed Forces’ chemical, biological and radiological protection force, was killed by a remote-controlled bomb in front of his residential building.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was a man who, in his articles, presented to the international community irrefutable accusations of plans to create a “dirty bomb” to discredit Russia and plans for provocations involving toxic substances by the United States, other Western countries and the Kiev regime. Every statement made by Igor Kirillov was confirmed by solid evidence and documentary evidence. Moreover, he is one of the creators of the Sputnik vaccine produced by Russia against the Covid-19 virus. Accordingly, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov is a person who has done a great service not only to Russia but also to the entire international community.

According to the evidence that is currently being confirmed, his assassins hired an Uzbek national to carry out the deadly attack.

I strongly urge the United Nations to condemn the assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov as an act of terrorism. If it is not done, it is inevitable that the suspicion that the United Nations approves the war being waged against Russia by the collective West, led by the United States, from Ukrainian soil, will be confirmed among the people of the world.

Furthermore, we feel that the United Nations’ behaviour in this way is blocking the possibility of finding solutions through negotiations to control the serious negative impact that the Ukraine-Russia war is having on the people of the entire world.

Sri Lanka is a country that has been severely affected by a thirty-year separatist war. Therefore, we have experienced the impact of war on civilians. Hence, I take this opportunity to emphasise that in order to prevent such barbarous killings from happening again on Russian soil, the United Nations should designate the assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov as an act of terrorism.

I also take this opportunity to state with regret that the failure of the UN to take solid action, would inevitably undermine the respect and trust of the world’s people in the United