Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that Ignat Kuzin, the individual detained for the April 25 murder of Gen.-Lt. Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff, is an “agent of Ukrainian special services with a Ukrainian residence permit.” TASS reported that, “according to the FSB, Kuzin acquired a motor vehicle and installed in it a home-made explosive device, obtaining components for it from a stash set up by Ukrainian special services in the Moscow Region. The explosive device was activated from Ukrainian territory.”
Russian authorities further reported that “Kuzin has fully admitted his guilt and expressed willingness to confirm his testimony during an on-site reenactment.”