A 29-year-old Uzbek citizen has been detained for allegedly planting the bomb that killed senior Russian general and his assistant, the Russian Investigative Committee said Wednesday.

Russian authorities said Wednesday that a suspect has been detained in connection with Tuesday's explosion in Moscow that killed a top Kremlin general and his aide.

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, December 24. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Saint Petersburg on a working visit at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) and EAEU (Euarasian Economic Union) summits on December 25-26, Trend reports via the Uzbek Presidential Office.

By Chris Summers Contributing Writer An Uzbekistan national who allegedly planted a scooter bomb that killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov has been arrested in Moscow, says the Russian investigative committee.

The Russian prosecutor’s office said the suspect, a 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, confessed to planting the bomb on the orders of Ukrainian agents.

Russia’s security service says it has detained a citizen from Uzbekistan in the bombing that killed a senior general as he left his Moscow apartment — a bold assassination that was claimed by Ukraine’

By bne IntelliNews The Embassy of Uzbekistan in Moscow on December 18 commented on the situation following the detention of a 29-year-old Uzbek national over the scooter-bomb assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov,

A senior Russian general was killed in a bomb blast in a residential neighborhood in Moscow, Russian media reported early Tuesday.

Authorities said they had arrested an Uzbek national born in 1995 for working with Ukrainian special services to plant a bomb on a scooter outside the general's residence.

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Russia said on Wednesday it had detained a man from Uzbekistan over the killing of a senior Russian general and his assistant in Moscow a day earlier. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed Russia’s ...

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