By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-21 20:30:36 | Updated at 2024-12-22 22:29:44
1 day ago
Ukraine offered Moscow bombing suspect $100,000 to assassinate general, Russia claims
Yahoo News ^ | December 18, 2024
Posted on 12/21/2024 12:23:56 PM PST by Navy Patriot
An Uzbek national was offered $100,000 (£78,650) by Ukraine to assassinate the head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons unit, Moscow has claimed.
Russian police have arrested a 29-year-old suspect, who they say had been “recruited by Ukrainian special forces” and offered the money for the assassination of Lt Gen Igor Kirillov.
“On their instructions, he arrived in Moscow, received a powerful improvised explosive device and placed it on an electric scooter, which he parked near the entrance of Kirillov’s home,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Investigators said the suspect set up a camera in a rental car that broadcast live footage to a Ukrainian SBU intelligence service control centre in the city of Dnipro.
There, an SBU agent “remotely activated” the IED before dawn on Tuesday when Kirillov walked out of his apartment block, killing him and his assistant.
The SBU has been waging a sophisticated assassination campaign throughout the near-three-year war in Ukraine that has killed dozens of Ukrainian collaborators, Russian military officers, Kremlin propagandists and scientists both in Russia and occupied areas of Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: ukraine
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Akhmadzhon Kurbonov, Moscow bombing suspect, was arrested and charged with the killings, carrying out a terrorist act and illegally manufacturing explosives.
1 posted on 12/21/2024 12:23:56 PM PST by Navy Patriot
To: Navy Patriot
Your tax dollars at work!
2 posted on 12/21/2024 12:28:56 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
