The Federal Security Service of Russia said he was a suspect in the murder of Lieutenant-General Yaroslav Moskalik, a high Russian military officer who died in a car explosion on Friday, saying that the suspect is a Ukrainian agent.
“He turned out to be a special Ukrainian service agent Ignat Kuzin, born in 1983, who has a residence permit in Ukraine,” said spokesman for the investigation committee, Svetlana Petrenko.
“The investigators of the main investigation of the Russian inquiry committee work with the suspect, the circumstances of the crime are being created, evidence is being collected,” she added.
Moskalik was the deputy chief of the main operational department of the Russian army staff. He died after a Volkswagen golf course exploded In a residential district of Balashikha, just outside Moscow.
The Ukrainian authorities did not comment on the attack.
He follows after the lieutenant-general Igor Kirillov Died in December of last year in an explosion outside its building after a device hidden in an electric scooter has been exploded from a distance.
