The head of Russia's chemical and biological forces, Lt. General Igor Kirillov, was killed in a Moscow bomb blast claimed by Ukraine.

Russia said on Wednesday it had detained an Uzbek man who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb which killed a top general, Igor Kirillov, in Moscow on the instructions of Ukraine’s SBU security service.

Russian security forces have detained two suspects over the assassination of a top Kremlin general and his assistant in Moscow, Russian media reported on Dec. 18. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant were killed in Moscow on Dec.

Kirillov ran Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces. Kyiv previously accused him of ordering the use of chemical weapons against Ukraine.

Kirillov, who has been killed in Moscow, was accused by the West of overseeing the use of chemical weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine.

Russian officials say a man has been detained over the killing of Lt. General Igor Kirillov, who led Russia's chemical and biological weapons unit.

Russia said on Wednesday it had detained an Uzbek man who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb which killed a top general, Igor Kirillov, in Moscow on the instructions of Ukraine's SBU security service.

Russia has detained a citizen of Uzbekistan who it says has confessed to planting the bomb that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in Moscow.

Kirillov, who was chief of Russia ’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, was killed outside his apartment building on Tuesday along with his assistant when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter went off. He is the most senior Russian military officer to be assassinated in Russia by Ukraine.

A 29-year-old Uzbekistani national has been arrested in connection with Tuesday’s assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s radiation, chemical, and biological defense forces.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Defence Forces (NBC), was killed in an explosion in Moscow in an assassination claimed by Ukraine

Russia said the suspect, a Uzbekistan national, had been recruited by Ukrainian security services to carry out the assassination.