Russian law enforcement agents apprehended a male believed of eliminating the head of the armys chemical weapons division, detectives said Wednesday, a day after the basic and his assistant were eliminated by a blast in Moscow.
A national of Uzbekistan, born in 1995, was arrested on suspicion of having actually devoted the attack that cost the life of the commander of Russian radiological, chemical and biological defense forces, Igor Kirillov, and his assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, Russias Investigative Committee said in a statement.The guy stated he had been hired by Ukrainian unique forces, it added.Kirillov and his assistant were killed on Tuesday as they walked out of a Moscow apartment building early in the early morning after an explosive device connected to a scooter went off.The declaration stated the suspect informed interrogators that he had come to Moscow to carry out the attack and that a camera installed on the control panel of a rented car parked outside the building had shot the attack and streamed it live to the attack organizers in the [Ukrainian] city of Dnipro.
The man was guaranteed $100,000 to carry out the attack, in addition to the possibility to settle in a European nation, the declaration said.Kirillov was the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia given that the Kremlin sent out troops into Ukraine nearly 3 years ago.The blast went off in a suburb in southeast Moscow a day after President Vladimir Putin hailed Russian troop successes in Ukraine.Kirillov, 54, was the head of the Russian armys chemical, biological and radiological weapons system and was recently approved by Britain over the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine.A source in Ukraines SBU security service told AFP on Tuesday that it was behind the early morning explosion in what it called a special operation, calling Kirillov a war crook.