Russian safety forces say they’ve detained a Ukrainian spy accused of killing a senior Russian common in a automobile bomb assault in Moscow’s suburbs on Friday.
The FSB secret service mentioned that they had apprehended “Ukrainian particular providers agent Ignat Kuzi” who had “planted explosives in a Volkswagen Golf” to kill Gen Yaroslav Moskalik.
Gen Moskalik had been the deputy head of the primary operational directorate of the navy’s Common Workers. He died after strolling previous the automobile parked outdoors his home within the suburb of Balashikha.
The FSB mentioned Kuzin had rigged the automobile with a home made explosive system and the bomb had then been set off remotely from Ukraine.
Ukraine has not commented on the bombing.
The FSB mentioned the suspect had been recruited by Ukraine in 2023, and had pushed to Moscow in September that 12 months.
Russian media additionally reported that the FSB had launched a video displaying the detained man giving an obvious confession, in addition to footage of his arrest and of the bomb’s elements.
The Kremlin had on Friday blamed Ukraine for the assault, saying Kyiv “continues its involvement in terrorist actions inside our nation”.
Gen Moskalik had represented Russia in talks with Ukraine in Paris in 2015, which resulted within the failed Minsk agreements which aimed to finish the preventing within the Donbas area between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatist forces that began in 2014.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
