A military court in Moscow on Wednesday sentenced a citizen of Uzbekistan to life imprisonment for the killing of Russian general Igor Kirillov in the Russian capital in 2024. He imposed prison terms of 18-25 years on the other three men for complicity. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.
Kirillov, former head of the chemical, biological and nuclear defense units of the Russian Armed Forces, died on December 17, 2024 in an assassination attempt in Moscowto which the Ukrainian counter-intelligence SBU applied. When he left the apartment building, an electric scooter planted with explosives exploded. His assistant also perished with him.
A Moscow court imposed a life sentence on an Uzbek born in 1995 who is accused of planting an explosive device. The Russian prosecutor’s office claims that those who ordered the attack promised him money and a European passport. According to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the man worked as a courier. She posted a video in which he said he “pushed a button.”
In addition to him, they also detained a Russian citizen born in Azerbaijan accused of hiding parts of an explosive device and handing them over to the attacker. Two other men rented an apartment for the offender on the instructions of the “curator”.
Russia also accused in absentia several persons located abroad who allegedly organized the transport of the bomb from Poland to Russia. According to AFP, Kirillov is the highest-ranking representative of the Russian army to have been killed on Russian territory since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
