Russia Arrests Suspect in Car Bomb Killing of Top General, Blames Ukraine

There was no immediate comment from Kyiv as Russian officials filed terrorism charges against the alleged Ukrainian agent.

Law enforcement officers work at the site of a car bomb, which killed senior Russian military officer, in Balashikha, outside Moscow, Russia, on April 25, 2025. Yulia Morozova/Reuters

Russia’s top security agency announced on April 26 that it had detained a suspect over the car bombing that killed a senior Russian general near Moscow, accusing Ukrainian special services of orchestrating the attack.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said in an April 26 statement that it had arrested Ignat Kuzin, a 41-year-old man with a Ukrainian residence permit, for allegedly planting the explosive devices that killed Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik a day earlier.