Man detained after Russian general's assassination
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 Hours GMT on Wednesday the 18th of December, these are our main stories. Russia has detained an Uzbek man accused of assassinating a senior general in Moscow on behalf of Ukraine. The United Nations expresses concerns about the expected large-scale return of refugees to Syria. Two of Japan's biggest car makers, Nissan and Honda, are considering merger talks because of increased competition from Chinese electric vehicle makers. Also in this podcast, Polish prosecutors seek a Europe-wide arrest warrant for a former deputy justice minister accused of misusing state funds.
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how melting sea ice has drawn polar bears closer to people. A day after a senior Russian general was assassinated in the heart of Moscow, Russia's security service, the FSB, says it has detained a 29-year-old man from Uzbekistan over the killing, saying he acted under instructions from Ukraine. General Igor Kirillov died alongside his assistant when a bomb went off outside his apartment on Tuesday. He was in charge of the force protecting Russia's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. and had been accused of using chemical weapons in Russia's war in Ukraine. Svetlana Petrenko is a spokeswoman for the investigative committee which looks into major crimes in Russia.
During the interrogation, he explained that he was recruited by Ukrainian special forces. During interrogation, he explained that he was recruited by the Ukrainian special services. On their instructions, he arrived in Moscow and received a homemade explosive device. He placed it on an electric scooter, which he parked at the entrance of the residential building where Igor Kirillov lived. To monitor servicemen's home, he rented a car-sharing vehicle in which he installed a video surveillance camera.
BBC Monitoring's Russia editor Vitaly Shevchenko told us more about the arrest of the Uzbek suspect.
We have got statements from both the investigative committee and also the Russian Federal Security Service and also a video published by the security service showing the apparent perpetrator, the man himself, And all of them are basically saying the same thing, that this man, a citizen of Uzbekistan, bought a scooter. Then several months later, and this operation apparently took several months, he received parts. for the bomb, which he assembled, then parked the scooter outside General Kirillov's house, set up a camera, which was live streaming to the Uzbek man's alleged handlers from the Ukrainian Security Service. So, when on Tuesday morning they saw General Kirillov emerge from his house, the Uzbek suspect pressed a button detonating the bomb that killed the general. According to the man we can see in that video published by the Russian Security Service, He was allegedly promised $100,000 for killing the general and also a chance to move to the EU and settle in the EU.
Whether any of that is true is, of course, another matter. But it's very significant that the Russian security services are saying that – Ukrainian agents have been able to organize the killing of a senior and very important figure. Ukrainians, they are reluctant to go on the record officially, issue official statements via named representatives saying, we did it.
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Janet Jalil 7 min
Vitaly Shevchenko 3 min
Suranjana Tiwari 2 min
Maria Valberg 2 min
Adam Easton 2 min
Victoria Gill 2 min
Sean Bowles 2 min
Miranda 1 min
Lina Sinjab 1 min
Emma Barnett 1 min
Andy Verity 1 min
Narrator 1 min
Amy Pope 1 min
Stephanie Zachrisson 1 min
Ian Van Nest 1 min
Svetlana Petrenko
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Dave Daly
Professor Fei-Yu Wang
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