Bomb on e-scooter

Arrest after assassination of general in Moscow

The scene of the bomb attack in Moscow

(Bild: ASSOCIATED PRESS, Krone KREATIV)

An arrest has been made following the fatal attack on General Igor Kirillov in Moscow using an explosive device on an e-scooter: An Uzbek admitted to planting the bomb on the instructions of the Ukrainian secret service, according to the Russian investigative authority.

The man, who was born in 1995, is a resident of "a European country". He had traveled to Moscow for the attack and had been promised 100,000 dollars (95,265.31 euros) for the deed.

General Igor Kirillov

(Bild: APA/AFP)

Perpetrators recruited via messenger service 
Media reports spoke of two suspects who had been arrested following the analysis of surveillance cameras. The Kommersant and Izvestia newspapers and the RBK portal reported on suspected organizers of the attack. They had recruited the perpetrators via messenger services and put them in contact with the Ukrainian secret service SBU. This could not be verified either.

Russia also wants to raise the issue of Kirillov's killing in the UN Security Council, as Moscow Foreign Office spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. "We will find Kirillov's murderers and punish them," she emphasized.

Adjutant was also killed
Kirillov, head of the Russian troops for protection against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, was killed by an explosive device outside his home in Moscow on Tuesday morning. His aide was also killed. Russian investigators spoke of terror and immediately assumed that it was an act of Ukrainian secret services. In Kiev, the SBU unofficially hinted that it was responsible for the attack.