Russia detains man suspected of killing general on Ukraine’s orders in car bomb attack near Moscow
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A view of the site of a car blast in the courtyard of residential buildings in Balashikha, Russia, on April 25.
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MOSCOW – Russia detained a man suspected of killing a Russian general in a car blast outside Moscow on Ukraine’s orders, the FSB secret service said on April 26.
Moscow had previously accused Kyiv of being behind the blast on April 25 which killed senior Russian general Yaroslav Moskalik
“Ukrainian special services agent Ignat Kuzin, born in 1983, a resident of Ukraine, who planted explosives in a Volkswagen Golf in the city of Balashikha in the Moscow region, killing Lieutenant-General Yaroslav Moskalik, was detained,” the FSB said in a statement.
According to the FSB, Kuzin had rigged the car with a homemade explosive device, which he took from a Ukrainian secret service stash in the Moscow region, and the bomb was then detonated remotely from Ukraine.
A video released by the FSB showed Kuzin apparently confessing, as well as his arrest on a forest road and the bomb’s components.
The suspect, who could face a life sentence on terrorism charges, appeared alone on the video but it was unclear whether he was speaking under duress.
Kyiv has not commented on the blast, which bore the hallmarks of previous attacks on military figures and high-profile backers of the Kremlin’s offensive over the last three years. AFP
