Russia says suspect detained in the killing of a senior general in Moscow

Russia’s security service said Wednesday it detained a citizen from Uzbekistan in the bombing that killed a senior general as he left his southeastern Moscow apartment — a bold assassination that was claimed by Ukraine’s security service.

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden on an electric scooter outside his apartment building, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. His assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, also was killed.

Investigators work near a scooter at the place where Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov were killed by an explosive

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