Kiev/MoscowcTypeface:> An Uzbek man detained by Russia’s FSB domestic intelligence agency has admitted being recruited by Ukraine to assassinate Igor Kirillov, the Russian general killed in a Moscow bomb blast, the FSB said on Wednesday.
The suspect had admitted being recruited by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency and provided with explosives by the SBU, the FSB said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov praised the progress made by the investigators.
"Not a lot of time has passed, but a lot is already known,” he said, according to a report by state news agency TASS. Peskov attributed the killing to Ukraine. "We know who commissioned this terrorist attack. We are fighting this Nazi regime and will continue the struggle,” he said, using terms frequently used by Russian politicians to describe the Ukrainian government. (DPA)