Man who 'planted bomb that killed Putin's nuclear general' makes chilling confession during arrest
Man who 'planted bomb that killed Putin's nuclear general' makes chilling confession during arrest
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A man accused of planting a scooter bomb that kiled Vladimir Putin's top nuclear general made a chilling confession during his arrest. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, 54, in charge of Russia’s radiation, chemical and biological defence troops, died in a bomb blast as he emerged from his apartment building early on Tuesday.
The suspect has been named as Akhmad Kurbanov, 29, from Uzbekistan, and in a chilling confession video after his arrest by the FSB said he was offered $100,000 [£78,700] and a new life in Europe. The handcuffed man apparently confessed both planting the bomb concealed in or on a scooter - and pushing the button to trigger it when the general emerged from his apartment building. The FSB security service said that Ukrainian SBU officers who had tasked him with the bombing watched it from Dnipro in Ukraine.
The committee continued: “During interrogation, he explained that he had been recruited by the Ukrainian special services. On their instructions, he arrived in Moscow and received an improvised explosive device. “He placed it on an electric scooter, which he parked at the entrance of the apartment block where Igor Kirillov lived. In order to monitor the serviceman's residence, he rented a carsharing vehicle, where he installed a video surveillance camera. The footage from this camera was broadcast online to the organisers of the terrorist attack in the city of Dnipro.
“After the video signal of the servicemen leaving the entrance, the explosive device was remotely detonated by him. The detained suspect’s identity was found in a joint operation by the FSB [Federal Security Service], Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, said the FSB.
