Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
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The Russian prosecutor’s office said the suspect, a 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, confessed to planting the bomb on the orders of Ukrainian agents.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev
Reporting from Berlin
The Russian authorities said on Wednesday that they had detained a suspect in the killing of a senior military officer, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, a major development in the most prominent political assassination case in the country since the start of the war in Ukraine.
The suspect, a 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan whose name was not released, was captured in a village outside Moscow, a spokeswoman for Russia’s prosecutor’s office said.
The spokeswoman said he confessed that Ukrainian intelligence recruited him to kill General Kirillov, 54, who commands Russian army forces to protect against nuclear and chemical weapons.
An official with Ukraine’s security services, known as the SBU, said Tuesday that Ukraine is guilty of the murder, which occurred Tuesday in central Moscow. He spoke about sensitive data on condition of anonymity.
The general’s killing came days after reports began to emerge about the death of a space scientist on the outskirts of Moscow. Scientist Mikhail Chatsky worked for the state-owned military-industrial corporation MARS.
A current and former senior Ukrainian official said Shatsky was killed in an operation organized through Ukraine’s military intelligence services, known as H. U. R. , due to what they believed was his complicity in war crimes against Ukrainian civilians.
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