A Russian intelligence agency announced that it had arrested a suspect in the Moscow senior general’s murder today. According to the description, Ukrainian intelligence agencies recruited the suspect, who was an Uzbek national.
The head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, was murdered Tuesday outside a block of apartments about 7 kilometers (4 miles) southeast of the Kremlin. According to Russian state news outlet Tass, the bomb, which was reportedly in a scooter, was remotely detonated and had about 300g of TNT’s strength.
Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed just a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the service carried out the attack.
On Wednesday, a Russian intelligence agency announced that it had arrested a suspect in the Moscow senior general’s murder. The suspect, who was not given a name, was described as a 1995-born Uzbek national who was enlisted by Ukrainian intelligence.
Ukraine claimed hours later that it was behind the bomb attack that killed Kirillov. President Vladimir Putin’s Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, declared on Tuesday that Kyiv “will face inevitable retribution” for the murder. Speaking about Ukraine, Medvedev told RIA Novosti: “Realising the inevitability of its military defeat, it launches cowardly and despicable strikes in peaceful cities.”
