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Suspect in killing of top Russian general charged with terrorism, court says

By Thomson Reuters Dec 19, 2024 | 10:52 AM

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The suspect in the killing of top Russian general Igor Kirillov has been charged with an act of terrorism resulting in the death of a person, a notice on the website of the Moscow court said on Thursday.

Russia said on Wednesday it had detained an Uzbek man who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb in Moscow which killed Kirillov, who was the chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, on the instructions of Ukraine’s SBU security service.

(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)