Operatives from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) have detained a suspect in the murder of Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff.

Axar.az reports, ciing TASS, "Agent of Ukrainian special services with a Ukrainian residence permit Ignat Kuzin born in 1983 was detained who planted explosives in a Volkswagen Golf in the town of Balashikha in the Moscow Region, resulting in the death of Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff, born in 1966," the FSB Public Relations Center said.

According to the FSB, Kuzin acquired a motor vehicle and installed in it a home-made explosive device, obtaining components for it from a stash set up by Ukrainian special services in the Moscow Region.

The explosive device was activated from Ukrainian territory, the press service said.

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Ignat Kuzin, suspected in the murder of Moskalik, has been detained in Turkiye.

This was reported by TASS, citing sources.