Overview
- The Second Western District Military Court convicted Uzbek national Akhmadzhon Kurbonov and imposed a life sentence in a special-regime colony.
- Kurbonov admitted planting and remotely detonating a bomb hidden in an electric scooter that killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov and aide Ilya Polikarpov in Moscow in December 2024.
- Three co-defendants were sentenced to long terms, with Robert Safaryan receiving 25 years, Batukhan Tochiyev 22 years, and Ramazan Padiyev 18 years.
- Russian investigators said the attack was planned in Ukraine and that explosives were smuggled from Poland and stored in Russia before assembly.
- Ukraine’s SBU has claimed responsibility for the operation, while Russian authorities label the killings as terrorism.