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    Russland sagt, usbekischem Staatsbürger seien 100.000 Dollar für die Ermordung eines Generals geboten worden


    Russland sagt, usbekischem Staatsbürger seien 100.000 Dollar für die Ermordung eines Generals geboten worden

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/18/russia-says-uzbek-national-was-offered-100000/

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    1. TheTelegraph on

      **From The Telegraph’s James Kilner:**

      An Uzbek national was offered $100,000 (£78,650) by Ukraine to [assassinate the head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons unit](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/17/bomb-kills-senior-russian-general-igor-kirillov-moscow/), Moscow has claimed.

      Russian police have arrested a 29-year-old suspect, who they say had been “recruited by Ukrainian special forces” and offered the money for the assassination of [Lt Gen Igor Kirillov](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/12/17/igir-kirillov-chemical-weapons-ukraine-killed-obituary/).

      “On their instructions, he arrived in Moscow, received a powerful improvised explosive device and placed it on an electric scooter, which he parked near the entrance of Kirillov’s home,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement.

      Investigators said the suspect set up a camera in a rental car that broadcast live footage to a Ukrainian SBU intelligence service control centre in the city of Dnipro.

      There, an SBU agent “remotely activated” the IED before dawn on Tuesday when Kirillov walked out of his apartment block, killing him and his assistant.

      Kirillov, the head of [Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/08/britain-sanctions-commander-russia-chemical-weapons-force/), is the highest-ranked military commander assassinated by the SBU.

      The SBU has been waging a sophisticated assassination campaign throughout the near-three-year war in Ukraine that has killed dozens of Ukrainian collaborators, [Russian military officers](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/11/russian-submarine-commander-shot-strava-krasnodar-vinnytsia/), [Kremlin propagandists](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/02/russia-journalist-vladlen-tatarsky-killed-st-petersberg/) and scientists both in Russia and occupied areas of Ukraine.

      Later, in an FSB interrogation video, the arrested Uzbek man confessed that the assassination plot was several weeks in the making.

      He said that he had arrived in Moscow on the “instructions of the Ukrainian special forces”, bought a scooter and then waited a “few months” for the bomb to arrive.

      “They promised me $100,000 and a European passport,” he said in the video, wearing handcuffs and a torn jacket.

      The suspect also appeared to contradict the statement from the Investigative Committee by saying that he triggered the IED, rather than an SBU agent in Ukraine.

      It is unclear under what conditions the Uzbek man made his confession. Russian forces are known to torture crime suspects into confessions.

      Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reported that the Uzbek man was arrested in the Balashikha district of Moscow, only a few miles from Ryazansky Prospekt, where Kirillov was killed.

      Kirillov was hated in Ukraine, which on Monday called him a war criminal for greenlighting the use of tear gas and other chemical weapons against its soldiers.

      **Article Link:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/18/russia-says-uzbek-national-was-offered-100000/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/18/russia-says-uzbek-national-was-offered-100000/)

    4. ManxMerc on

      I’d imagine a few hundred thousand Ukrainians would have done it for free

    5. Maxl_Schnacksl on

      That should give them pause. Like a lot of pause. Thats a bargain.

    6. Othnus on

      How to tell if russian is lying:

      Are they speaking? – then they are lying.

    10. _chip on

      All ethnic groups in Russias hold could rise up and they wouldn’t be stopped.. The bears overstretched..

    12. timwaaagh on

      would have been better for ukraine not to claim it i think. sure the poor sod they used for this would have confessed anyways but it would have been possible to leave some doubt.

    13. debunk101 on

      Russia trying to stir up destabilisation of another country: Uzbekistan in Russia’s next target?

    14. Snoo_88515 on

      Just another portion of regurgitated propaganda that the russian public consumes on a regular basis, and which will be fed to the rest of sympathizers at the UN securilty council meeting in few days. In his confession, three main points are used to frame it as a truly global collusion:
      1. Ukrainian special forces recruiting an Uzbek national, thus denying credit to the professionalism of the SBU (organization, timing, recording, avoidance of civilian casualties, placing the explosive against a wall to direct the blast wave).
      2. American dollars.
      3. And European passport of course.

    17. HeyUniverse22 on

      Whats also funny is that yesterday their propaganda was like “saxons and americans gave orders to ukrainians otherwise this would be impossible” (something like this), but today they’re saying “ukrainian SBU is training americans and british spies how to do these kinds of operations”. Poor Ukraine is being controlled by everyone while at the same time being the main fucking antagonist behind everything

    19. albanymetz on

      I heard that Russia is offering $1500/mo to people willing to invade Ukraine and kill anyone they find.

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