Russian state news has broadcast a video of a Russian citizen confessing to blowing up a military officer in a car bombing in Moscow on orders from Ukraine’s spy agency.

The handcuffed man, who Russia’s FSB security service named as Yevgeny Serebyrakov, had been brought to Russia from Turkey and handed over to investigators.

In the video, published by Russian outlet Ria, the man claimed he was told to carry out Wednesday’s attack by an officer of Ukraine’s SBU that he met in Istanbul.

Several Russian news outlets named Andrei Torgashov and his wife as the two victims of the bombing, which was filmed on CCTV that showed a parked Toyota Land Cruiser exploding into a fireball.

The alleged intelligence officer, who Russian media reported was on Ukraine’s online target list, lost his feet in the explosion, while the woman received shrapnel wounds. 

Mr Serebyrakov said he had been recruited by Ukrainian intelligence last year and asked to kill “an officer” with a homemade car bomb.

He was promised Ukrainian citizenship and $10,000-20,000 dollars as a reward for his work, he claimed. There has been no immediate comment from Ukraine on the new claims.

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