Russian authorities arrested an Uzbekistan national on Wednesday who they say admitted to killing Russian general Igor Kirillov in a bombing on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old suspect, who was not named, was captured in a village on the outskirts of Moscow following the assassination.
Russian authorities claimed that the suspect confessed to being hired by Ukraine’s military intelligence service, known as the HUR, to carry out the attack.
The assassination came just a day after Ukraine accused Kirillov — who was the head of Russia’s nuclear, biological, and chemical protection forces — of war crimes involving the use of banned chemical weapons on the battlefield.
The suspect allegedly traveled to Moscow and placed a bomb under a scooter that was near Kirillov’s home. When Kirillov and one of his aides walked outside of the building where the scooter was located, the bomb detonated,…
