Russia's security service (FSB) has detained a suspect in the killing of Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces, and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov. The FSB alleges the suspect, born in 1995, was recruited by Ukrainian special services and promised $100,000 and EU residency in exchange for the assassination. The suspect allegedly detonated a bomb hidden in a scooter outside Kirillov's Moscow apartment building after monitoring his movements.
Investigators work near a scooter at the place where Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia 's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov were killed by an explosive device planted close to a residential apartment's block in Moscow , Russia , Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. Russia 's security service said Wednesday that it has detained a suspect in the killing of a senior general in Moscow .
The FSB said the suspect had been promised a reward of $100,000 and permission to move to a European Union country in exchange for killing Kirillov. The suspect was detained in a village in the Moscow region, according to Ministry of Internal Affairs official Irina Volk, who was quoted by Russian state news agency TASS.
Kirillov, who took his current job in 2017, was one of the most high-profile figures to level those accusations. He held numerous briefings to accuse the Ukrainian military of using toxic agents and planning to launch attacks with radioactive substances — claims that Ukraine and its Western allies rejected as propaganda.
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