The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia reported today the arrest of the perpetrator of the bomb attack that this Tuesday killed in Moscow to the lieutenant general Igor Kirilovhead of Russia’s radiological, chemical and biological defense. According to the FSB statement released by Russian agencies, the detainee is a citizen of Uzbekistan born in 1995, whose identity has not been revealed, who confessed to having been recruited by the secret services of Ukraine.
The detainee traveled to Moscow at the request of his employers, He received a high-powered explosive device and hid it in an electric scooter which he parked next to the entrance to the building where Kirilov lived, the press release adds.
To monitor the general’s home, he rented a shared car in which he installed a Wi-Fi video camera that transmitted live images to the organizers of the attack, located in the ukrainian city of Dnipro.
The FSB added that once the detainee saw the image of the soldiers leaving the building’s portal remotely detonated the bomb who killed Kirilov and his assistant.
The statement from the Russian Federal Security Service assures that the Ukrainian secret services promised the detainee $100,000 and the possibility of settling in a country of the European Union.
