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Russia said he had arrested an Uzbek man who confessed to planting and detonating the bomb that killed top Russian general Igor Kirilov.
Kirillov, who was the chief Russianuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, killed outside his apartment building on Tuesday along with his assistant when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter exploded.
He is the highest-ranking Russian military officer to be killed in Russia Ukraine.
Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service claimed responsibility for the killing after Ukraine accused Kirilov of being responsible for using chemical weapons against Ukrainian soldiers – accusation Moscow he denies it.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, which investigates serious crimes, said in a statement that the unnamed suspect said he had come to Moscow to carry out an assignment for Ukrainian intelligence services.
The video released by the news base shows the suspect sitting in a van and describing his actions. It was not clear under what conditions he spoke and The Independent could not verify the authenticity of the video.
Dressed in a winter coat, the suspect is shown saying he came to Moscow at the behest of Ukrainian intelligence services, bought an electric scooter and received an improvised explosive device. He describes mounting the device on an electric scooter and parking it in front of the block of flats where Kirillov lived.
Investigators cited him for installing a surveillance camera in a rental car that they said was being followed by people who orchestrated the killing in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
The suspect, believed to have been born in 1995, was shown saying he remotely detonated the device as Kirilov left the building. He says Ukraine offered him $100,000 (£79,000) and residency in a European country.
He comes as the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that the country’s army is unable to regain territory currently occupied by Russia without diplomatic pressure from Kiev’s allies.
I am speaking for a French newspaper ParisianZelensky said: “We cannot give up our territories.” The Ukrainian constitution forbids us to do that. [But] we don’t have the strength to recover them.
“We can only count on diplomatic pressure from the international community to force Putin to sit down at the negotiating table.
Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014 and controls about 80 percent of the Donbass, an industrial zone that includes the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
“It’s not about who’s sitting across from you; it’s about the position you’re in when you negotiate. I don’t believe that we are in a weak position, but we are not in a strong one either,” added Zelenski.
On the battlefield, Russia claimed that Ukraine repeatedly dropped white phosphorus munitions from drones in September – a charge Kiev strongly denies.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said law enforcement agencies had evidence of Ukraine’s use of such munitions, but did not elaborate.
Ukraine, which has accused Russia of using phosphorus in the war, said Ms Zakharova’s statement was false and accused Russia of using banned chemical substances on the battlefield.
Ukraine has also unveiled a laser weapon capable of shooting down drones from more than a mile away in a combat attempt Russian airstrikes.
Colonel Vadym Sukharevsky, commander of Ukraine’s unmanned systems forces, said the laser would be capable of shooting down aircraft at a distance of more than 2 km.
“It really works; it does exist,” he said at a conference on the European defense industry, adding that efforts are underway to increase its capabilities.
The announcement came after the UK unveiled the cutting-edge Trident laser weapon earlier this year. The spokesman then said that they would share their prototypes with Ukraine.