A suspect has been taken into custody in connection with the murder of a senior Russian general in Moscow.
Although the person was not identified by name, the suspect is a male citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan born in 1995, according to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
He is accused of detonating an explosive outside a residential building in Moscow on Tuesday, killing Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his aide, Major IV Polikarpov.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was killed on Tuesday by an explosive device detonated outside his residence in Moscow. (The associated press)
The suspect said he was recruited by Ukrainian special services to carry out the attack, for which the agency claimed responsibility on Tuesday.
A look at the explosion scene, which, according to the Russian Investigative Committee, killed the commander of the Russian Armed Forces’ Chemical, Biological and Radiation Defense Forces, Igor Kirillov, and his assistant outside a residential building on Moscow’s Ryazansky Avenue. 17. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)
“On their instructions, he arrived in Moscow, received a powerful homemade explosive and placed it on an electric scooter, which he parked at the entrance to IA Kirillov’s house,” said a Russian statement, translated into English. “To check the soldier’s address, he rented a car-sharing car and installed a Wi-Fi video camera in it, the images of which were broadcast online to the organizers in the city of Dnepr (Ukraine).”
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