US EditionCourt jails man who killed Russian chemical weapons chief at Ukraine's behest for life
- On Wednesday, the Second Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced Uzbek national Akhmadzhon Kurbonov to life after convicting him of killing Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant in December 2024.
- The Investigative Committee said planning took place in Ukraine, and Russian authorities called the killings 'acts of state terrorism', while Ukraine's SBU intelligence service said it carried out the operation to punish those it blames for the war.
- Investigators say explosives were smuggled from Poland and stored by Robert Safaryan, while Kurbonov assembled a bomb on an electric scooter and three accomplices received 18 to 25-year sentences.
- The defendant Akhmadzhon Kurbonov pleaded guilty and faces life in a special regime correctional prison camp, while other defendants did not plead guilty and an alleged mastermind in the EU remains under investigation.
- Since February 2022, at least 19 Russian generals have been killed, including Kirillov, the highest-ranking general since the invasion, reflecting a broader pattern of targeted military deaths.
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A Moscow military court admitted that Akhmajon Kurbonov, an Uzbek national, had manufactured and detonated the explosive device in a scooter at the foot of the general's home. The death of this high-ranking officer, in December 2024, had been claimed by the Ukrainian security service.
In December 2024, a Russian general dies in Moscow when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter explodes. Kiev confesses to the assassination. According to Moscow, however, it is said to have carried out a Uzbek. He and three other men are now experiencing the harshness of the Russian justice system.
On Wednesday, the three judges of the Military Court of the Second Western District of Moscow sentenced Ajmadzhon Kurbonov to life imprisonment for the murder in a terrorist attack of Lieutenant General Igor Kiritov . This was the head of the radiological, chemical and biological defence forces of Russia. He died on 17 December 2024 after an explosive hidden on an electric skateboard parked outside his private home was activated. His assistant a…
In Russia, four men were sentenced to long prison terms for the assassination of a general in 2024.
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