Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Armed Forces’ radiation, chemical and biological protection troops, was killed in an explosion in Moscow on Tuesday morning. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg as his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, where Trump has promised to end the war quickly. Denmark released anti-whaling activist Paul Watson from custody on Tuesday and said it had rejected a Japanese request to extradite him on criminal charges dating back more than a decade.
