Two people involved in the murder of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov were detained in Moscow.

Two men involved in the murder of the chief of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops were detained in Moscow The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his adjutant. This was reported by telegram channel 112.

"Two men involved in the murder of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his adjutant have been detained. They were caught yesterday. The suspects have already testified and told investigators about the organizers of the murder," the report said.

According to sources of Kommersant and Izvestia, law enforcement agencies took the trail "from the crime scene", drawing attention to two suspicious cars that were recorded by surveillance cameras. Two men were detained the day before, on December 17.

According to the source of Kommersant, the organizers of the terrorist attack reached out to the men through instant messengers and gave them contact contacts from Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). In fact, the crime was solved in hot pursuit, the source said. Kirillov and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov died in the early morning of December 17 as a result of an explosion near a house on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow. The power of the explosion was equivalent to about 1 kg of TNT.

As reported by EADaily, according to The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, on the morning of December 17, an explosive device planted in a scooter standing next to the entrance of a residential building was activated on Ryazan Avenue in Moscow. As a result, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces, Igor Kirillov, and his assistant were killed (according to other sources, it was the driver of the lieutenant general). The cause of the explosion was an explosive device embedded in the handle of the electric scooter, which worked remotely.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said that "the customer of the murder of Kirillov is the military-political leadership of Ukraine."