RUSSIA has arrested a man ‘allegedly recruited by Ukraine’ over the killing of Putin’s nuke general.
The elaborate assassination plot saw General Igor Kirillov getting killed after a bomb planted in an electric scooter blew up.
APIgor Kirillov was killed in a blast in the heart of Moscow on Tuesday[/caption]
East2WestA scooter can be seen by the door as Kirillov walks out[/caption]
Dramatic footage shows the moment the device detonated just seconds after the general left his home in Moscow.
Investigators said this morning they have arrested a Uzbek citizen who had confessed to planting the bomb that killed the general, on the instructions of Ukraine’s security service.
A statement read: “A national of Uzbekistan, 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 statement added the man was “recruited by Ukrainian special forces”.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said that the unnamed suspect had told them during questioning that he had come to Moscow where he had received an improvised explosive device for the hit.
The statement said he had described how he had placed the device on an electric scooter which he had parked outside the entrance of the apartment block where Kirillov lived.
The suspect was cited as saying that he had set up a surveillance camera in a hire car nearby and that the organisers of the assassination, who he said had been based in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, had used the camera to track Kirillov and remotely detonated the device when he had left the building.
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