Assassination of a Russian general: the suspect charged with the assassination of Igor Kirillov and placed in detention

Russian justice is not wasting time. The suspected perpetrator of the bomb attack that killed a senior Russian army officer in Moscow on Tuesday, which was claimed by Ukraine, was charged and detained on Thursday after appearing in court.

Akhmad Kurbanov, this Uzbek national born in 1995, was charged with “terrorist act”, “possession of explosives” and “manufacturing weapons”, reported the press service of the courts of the Russian capital on Telegram . He faces life imprisonment.

This source published photographs showing a man in dark clothing sitting in the cage reserved for the accused. He is accused of having left a booby-trapped scooter on Tuesday in front of the entrance to a building in the south-east of Moscow where General Igor Kirillov resided, killed with his assistant in the explosion as he was leaving.

Putin recognized “a failure” of Russia

This attack was immediately claimed by the Ukrainian security services, the SBU, which have already attributed or been attributed to several other assassinations of soldiers, pro-Russian leaders or supporters of the offensive in Ukraine since 2022.

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted Thursday during his major annual press conference that his assassination represents a failure of the Russian special services.