The FSB has detained a suspect in the murder of a general of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Moskalik

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19:00; 26 April 2025 year
ЦОС ФСБ России / ТАСС (скриншот из видео)

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FSB officers have detained a suspect in the murder of Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, the FSB Public Relations Center informs.

«As a result of urgent measures, the agent of the Ukrainian special services Kuzin Ignat, born in 1983, who has a residence permit in Ukraine, was detained, who booby-trapped a Volkswagen Golf car in Balashikha, Moscow region, as a result of which the Deputy chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General, was killed. Yaroslav, a Muscovite, was born in 1966," the center said.

According to the FSB, the suspect bought a car in which he mounted an improvised explosive device. He took its components from a cache equipped by the special services of Ukraine in the Moscow region. The device was activated remotely from the territory of Ukraine, TASS informs.