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
Report from Berlin
The Russian government said on Wednesday it had arrested a suspect in the murder of a high-ranking officer, Lt. Col. Gen. Igor Kirillov, a major development in the country’s biggest political assassination case since the start of the war in Ukraine.
The suspect, a 29-year-old Uzbek citizen whose name has not been published, was captured in a village outside Moscow, a spokeswoman for the Russian prosecutor’s office said.
The spokeswoman said he had confessed that Ukrainian intelligence agencies recruited him to kill General Kirillov, 54, who was in charge of the Russian military’s nuclear and chemical weapons protection forces.
An official with the Ukrainian security services, known as SBU, said Tuesday that Ukraine is guilty of the murder, which occurred Tuesday in central Moscow. He discussed sensitive data on condition of anonymity.
The general’s murder came days after reports began to emerge about the death of a space scientist outside Moscow. Scientist Mikhail Chatsky worked for the state 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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