5 hours Ago By France 24
Russia said it had detained a suspect on Wednesday who confessed to planting the bomb which killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov outside his apartment building. The Uzbekistani suspect said he was acting on orders from Ukraine. has detained a suspect in the killing of the head of the army's division, investigators said Wednesday, a day after the general and his aide were killed by a blast in .
"A national of , born in 1995, was arrested on suspicion of having committed the attack that cost the life of the commander of Russian radiological, chemical and biological defence forces, Igor Kirillov, and his assistant, Ilya Polikarpov", the Investigative Committee said in a statement. The man said he had been "recruited by special forces", it added. Kirillov and his assistant were killed on Tuesday as they walked out of a Moscow apartment building early in the morning, after an explosive device attached to a scooter went off.
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