A 29-year-old Uzbek citizen has been detained for allegedly planting the bomb that killed senior Russian general and his assistant, the Russian Investigative Committee said Wednesday.

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, December 24. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Saint Petersburg on a working visit at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) and EAEU (Euarasian Economic Union) summits on December 25-26, Trend reports via the Uzbek Presidential Office.

Russian authorities said Wednesday that a suspect has been detained in connection with Tuesday's explosion in Moscow that killed a top Kremlin general and his aide.

By Chris Summers Contributing Writer An Uzbekistan national who allegedly planted a scooter bomb that killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov has been arrested in Moscow, says the Russian investigative committee.

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The Russian prosecutor’s office said the suspect, a 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, confessed to planting the bomb on the orders of Ukrainian agents.

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

Russia’s security services have detained a 29-year-old man from Uzbekistan in connection with the assassination of Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces.

A senior Russian general was killed in a bomb blast in a residential neighborhood in Moscow, Russian media reported early Tuesday.

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Russia said on Wednesday it had detained a man from Uzbekistan over the killing of a senior Russian general and his assistant in Moscow a day earlier. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed Russia’s ...

Uzbekistan''s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, will attend the informal meeting of leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the summit of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in St. Petersburg from December 25-26,