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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

An Uzbek man is charged in Moscow with killing a Russian general in a bombing claimed by Ukraine

CORRECTION ADDITION Russia Explosion - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

An Uzbek citizen accused of acting on behalf of Ukraine has been charged in a Russian court with this week's assassination of a senior Russian general and his assistant in an electric scooter bombing claimed by Ukraine's security services, Russian state media said Thursday.

Akhmadzhon Kurbonov was ordered detained until at least Feb. 17 in Tuesday's bombing that killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of Russia’s Radiation, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces, the Tass state news agency reported.

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