RUSSIA has arrested a suspect 'allegedly recruited by Ukraine' over the killing of Putin's nuke general.
The elaborate assassination plot saw General Igor Kirillov getting killed after a bomb planted in an electric scooter blew up.
Dramatic footage shows the moment the device detonated just seconds after the general and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov left his home in Moscow.
The bomb hidden in an electric scooter is believed to have been detonated remotely, triggering the explosion of an estimated 200g of TNT.
Investigators said this morning they have arrested a Uzbek citizen who had confessed to planting the bomb that killed the general, on the instructions of Ukraine's security service.
Russia's Investigative Committee said that the unnamed suspect had told them during questioning that he had come to Moscow where he had received an improvised explosive device for the hit.
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A statement said he had described how he had placed the device on an electric scooter which he had parked outside the entrance of the apartment block where Kirillov lived.
The suspect was cited as saying that he had set up a surveillance camera in a hire car nearby - which was used by the masterminds of the attack who were based in Dnipro to track Kirillov and remotely detonate the device.
The army chief's death, who was in charge of radiation, chemical and biological defence troops came a day after he was charged with war crimes by Kyiv.
Volodymyr Zelensky's office later denied Ukrainian involvement in Kirillov's death.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president's office, said: "Ukraine does not use methods of terrorist formats.
"We have all the events on the battlefield. We have decisions on this or that general that are made on the battlefield.
"Kirillov was a big whistleblower. Perhaps it's an internal showdown - went where he didn't need to go, found out what he didn't need to find out."
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