The suspect has been arrested in connection with the assassination of a Russian general in Moscow.
Although the person has not been named, the suspect is a male citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan born in 1995, according to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
He is accused of detonating an explosive device outside a residential building in Moscow on Tuesday, killing Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his aide, Maj. IV Polikarpov.
UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL TAKES CREDIT AFTER RUSSIAN GENERAL IGOR KIRILLOV WAS KILLED IN MOSCOW EXPLOSIONS.
Lt. General Igor Kirillov was killed by an explosive device detonated outside his home in Moscow on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
The suspect said he was hired by the Ukrainian special team to carry out the attack, which the organization said it did on Tuesday.
A view of the explosion, which killed the commander of Russia's chemical, biological and radiological defense forces, Igor Kirillov, and his aide, according to the Russian Investigative Committee, outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow on Dec. 17. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)
“On their instructions, he arrived in Moscow, found a homemade high-powered explosive device and placed it on an electric motorcycle, which he parked near the door of IA Kirillov's house,” said a Russian statement translated into English. “To monitor the serviceman's address, he rented a car sharing car, installed a Wi-Fi video camera in it, the film was broadcast on the Internet to the organizers of the city of Dnepr (Ukraine).”
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