The Russian general assassin – the reward that would have been promised to him

The man suspected of killing a Russian general on Friday, in the explosion of a car near Moscow, was charged for « terrorist act », the investigation committee said on Sunday.

« The Russian General Prosecutor’s Office at the defendant on Ignat Kuzin for (photo) terrorist act, illicit traffic and manufacture of explosives and explosive devices, » the investigation committee informed.

The man, whose arrest was announced on Saturday, risks life imprisonment.

According to the Committee of Investigation, the suspect « acknowledged his guilt » and stated that « he was recruited by Ukrainian security agents, who contacted him by proposing a » total reward of $ 18,000.

According to his statement, the statement said, Kuzin arrived in Russia in September 2023, and later entrusted the mission to eliminate the general lieutenant Iaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the General Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army Forces.

General Moskalik was killed on Friday morning near Moscow, in the explosion of a car.

The Russian authorities denounced a « terrorist attack », imputed to the Ukrainian Security Service.

Ukraine, which did not react publicly in this case, has been accused on several occasions of targeted attacks against some Russian military personnel from the beginning of the war in Ukraine.