Late on Wednesday, Turkish authorities said they had arrested a Russian citizen suspected of the attack in Bodrum, who had flown in from Moscow.
On Friday, Russia’s Federal Security Service said in a statement that the man, identified by it as Yevgeny Serebryakov, had been brought to Russia and handed over to investigators.
In a video published by RIA Novosti, which has been edited in places to remove certain innuendos, Serebryakov said he was recruited by Ukrainian military intelligence last year and asked to kill an “officer”.
In the video, he also mentioned that at the request of his Ukrainians, he assembled the components to make a homemade bomb and placed it under the unnamed officer’s car.
According to J. Serebriakov, he was promised Ukrainian citizenship and 10-20 thousand for his work. dollar reward.
Ukraine has not yet commented on these allegations, and it is impossible to verify the authenticity of the recorded video.
On Wednesday, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that Andrei Torgashov, an officer of the Russian military intelligence agency, was injured when a car bomb exploded in northern Moscow. After some time, other media began to prove that the injured person was a person with the same name and surname, an ordinary soldier.
Reuters/Scanpix/Car explosion in Moscow
It is indicated that two people – a man and a woman – were injured in the explosion in the Toyota Land Cruiser car, and a criminal case has been opened for attempted murder, but the possibility of reclassifying it as a terrorist attack is not ruled out.
CCTV footage released shows the car exploding and turning into a ball of fire after the man got into the car outside the apartment complex.
Source: www.15min.lt
