Summary
A Russian general, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his Moscow apartment, reportedly carried out by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU).
Kirillov, sanctioned for alleged war crimes, was accused of directing the use of banned chemical weapons.
The attack, triggered remotely, also killed his assistant. Russia vowed retribution, calling it terrorism.
This follows a series of high-profile assassinations since the invasion of Ukraine, as tensions escalate amid Russia’s military advances.
Terrorism is a attack on civilians.
This was a attack on military personal so not terrorism
Someone accused of war crimes, so about as far from a civilian as you can get, too
I’d say it would depend on whether they could confirm the operator of the vehicle. If they could confirm it, not-terrorism like you said, he is military involved with invading another country. If they just rigged a scooter to blow and there was any chance a civilian could have accessed it instead (say his family member), then I’d say it could be considered terrorism, with the same reasoning of the pagers Israel used.
Sounds like it was an eyes on booby trap, likely a scooter that anyone interacting with would think simply had a dead battery.
There are pics of another scooter that pretty obviously didn’t have a bomb inside it, so probably just like every urban area now, couple rental scooters outside an apartment. Operator watching from a window or whatever confirms target and triggers it.