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Russia detains suspect over murder of Gen. Igor Kirillov
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
|December 19, 2024
The suspect, who is thought to have been born in 1995, had been offered $100,000 by Ukraine and residency in a European country
MOSCOW: Russia said, on Wednesday, it had detained an Uzbek man who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb which killed a top general, Igor Kirillov, in Moscow on the instructions of Ukraine's SBU security service.
Kirillov, who was chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside his apartment building on Tuesday along with his assistant when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter went off.
He is the most senior Russian military officer to be assassinated in Russia by Ukraine.
Ukraine's SBU intelligence service took responsibility for the killing after Ukraine accused Kirillov of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops - something Moscow denies.
Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes serious crimes, said in a statement, on Wednesday, that the unnamed suspect had told them he had come to Moscow to carry out an assignment for Ukraine's intelligence services.
In a video published by the Readovka news outlet, which is known to have sources in Russian law-enforcement circles, the suspect is seen sitting in a car describing his actions.
This story is from the December 19, 2024 edition of Hindustan Times Rajasthan.
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