The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia has reported the arrest of the perpetrator of the bomb attack that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov, head of Russia’s radiological, chemical and biological defense, in Moscow this Tuesday.
According to the FSB statement released by Russian agencies, andThe detainee is a citizen of Uzbekistan born in 1995whose identity was not revealed, who confessed to having been recruited by the Ukrainian secret services.
The detainee He traveled to Moscow at the request of his employers, received a high-powered explosive device and hid it in an electric scooter. which he parked next to the entrance to the building where Kirilov lived, the press release adds.
To monitor the general’s home, he rented a shared car in which he installed a Wi-Fi video camera that transmitted live images to the organizers of the attack, located in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
The FSB added that once the detainee saw the image of the soldiers leaving the building’s portal He remotely detonated the bomb that killed Kirilov and his assistant.
According to the statement, the Ukrainian secret services promised the detainee $100,000 and the possibility of settling in a European Union country.
