The suspected perpetrator of Tuesday’s bomb attack that killed a senior Russian army officer in Moscow, which was claimed by Ukraine, was charged and detained Thursday after appearing in court. This Uzbek national was charged with “terrorist act”, “possession of explosives” et “weapon manufacturing”reported the press service of the courts of the Russian capital on Telegram. He faces life imprisonment. This source published photographs showing a man in dark clothing sitting in the cage reserved for suspects.
He is accused of having left a booby-trapped scooter on Tuesday in front of the entrance to a building in the south-east of Moscow where General Igor Kirillov resided, killed with his assistant in the explosion as he was leaving. This attack was immediately claimed by the Ukrainian security services, the SBU, which have already attributed or been attributed to several other assassinations of soldiers, pro-Russian leaders or supporters of the offensive in Ukraine since 2022. General Kirillov, sanctioned in October by London for the alleged deployment of chemical weapons in Ukraine, was the commander of the Russian radiological, chemical and biological defense forces of the Russian army. Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted Thursday during his major annual press conference that his assassination represents a failure of the Russian special services.
