The evidence strongly supports this account. Multiple independent news organizations reported that Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was killed in Moscow on December 17, 2024, in a blast involving an explosive device placed in or on an electric scooter near his apartment building entrance. Later court reporting aligned with the same core facts.

The reported arrest is well established. Multiple independent international outlets confirmed that Russian authorities detained a 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan in connection with Igor Kirillov’s killing in Moscow on December 17, 2024. Later charging and court reporting further support the accuracy of that narrow factual claim.

Russian officials and state-linked reporting did publicly describe the bomb this way. Multiple reports, including Reuters and BBC accounts citing Russian authorities, said the device was planted in a scooter and had a blast power of about 300 grams of TNT. Some early reports gave different estimates, but they do not materially undermine the attributed statement.