A court decided on Sunday to detain 42-year-old Ignat Kuzin for two months over the killing of Russian General Yaroslav Moskalyk with a car bomb near his home in Moscow.

According to Russian media, during his interrogation, Kuzin stated that he had been recruited by Ukraine’s Secret Services (SBU).

The same sources report that Kuzin claimed he arrived in Russia from Ukraine in September 2023 and settled in the Moscow region.

When he received the order to carry out a terrorist attack against Moskalyk, he allegedly began gathering intelligence on the Russian general, moving in November 2024 into the same building where his target lived.

This way, he explained, he was able to monitor Moskalyk daily, documenting the general’s routines, including his times of arrival and departure from home.

Kuzin is also reported to have described how he purchased a Volkswagen Golf, which he rigged with explosives he collected from a hidden stash in the Balashikha area. The materials, according to his alleged confession, included TNT, nails, nuts, and surveillance devices, which he used to build the bomb.

On April 23, Kuzin reportedly went into hiding to prepare for executing the plan two days later, for which he had allegedly been promised a reward of $18,000.

At 10:30 a.m. on April 25, the 42-year-old allegedly received the “green light” from an SBU operative monitoring the situation via video to detonate the explosive device as Moskalyk passed by the booby-trapped car.

Russian authorities said they tracked down Kuzin using security camera footage that had captured him multiple times in the area of the attack.