The detainee was promised $100,000 and protected passage to a European nation if he helped plant the explosive machine that killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the top of Russia’s radiological, chemical and organic protection forces, the Investigative Committee in Moscow stated in an announcement Wednesday on Telegram.
Kirillov and his assistant have been killed when the bomb planted on a scooter detonated close to the doorway to an residence constructing in Moscow on Tuesday. He is probably the most senior Russian commander to be assassinated deep inside Russia because the Kremlin started its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.