Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
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The Russian prosecutor said the suspect, a 29-year-old Uzbek citizen, confessed to planting the bomb on the orders of Ukrainian agents.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev
Reporting from Berlin
The Russian government said on Wednesday it had arrested a suspect in the murder of a senior army officer, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, a major development in the country’s highest-profile political assassination case since the start of the war in Ukraine.
The suspect, a 29-year-old Uzbek national whose name has not been released, was captured in a village on the outskirts of Moscow, a spokeswoman for the Russian prosecutor’s office said.
The spokeswoman said he confessed that Ukrainian intelligence had recruited him to kill General Kirillov, 54, head of the Russian armed forces protecting 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 in a Moscow suburb. Scientist Mikhail Chatsky worked for the state military-industrial corporation MARS.
A current and former senior Ukrainian official said that Shatsky had been killed in an operation organized through Ukrainian military intelligence, known as H. U. R. , for what they believed was his complicity in war crimes against Ukrainian civilians.
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