RUSSIA has arrested a man ‘allegedly recruited by Ukraine’ over the killing of Putin’s nuke general.
The elaborate assassination plot saw General Igor Kirillov getting killed after a bomb planted in an electric scooter blew up.
Igor Kirillov was killed in a blast in the heart of Moscow on Tuesday[/caption]
A scooter can be seen by the door as Kirillov walks out[/caption]
Dramatic footage shows the moment the device detonated just seconds after the general left his home in Moscow.
Investigators said this morning they have arrested a Uzbek citizen and claimed he had been “recruited by Ukrainian special forces”.
A statement read: “A national of Uzbekistan, born in 1995, was arrested on suspicion of having committed the attack that cost the life of the commander of Russian radiological, chemical and biological defence forces, Igor Kirillov, and his assistant, Ilya Polikarpov.”
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