According to the press release from the FSB, which was accompanied by a video and were published on Friday on its Telegram channel, the individual confessed that he had maintained ties with Ukrainian security since February 2023.

Earlier, the FSB reported that Evgeny Serebriakov, implicated in the July 24 car bombing in northern Moscow, was deported on Friday from Türkiye, where he fled after committing the crime.

Born in 1995, Serebriakov was captured on Thursday in the Turkish city of Bodrum thanks to the interaction of law enforcement agencies from Türkiye and Russia, which issued an international search and arrest warrant against him.

During an initial interrogation, he said that he contacted the administrator of a social networking channel on his own initiative “to collaborate with the Ukrainian special services” and later established communication with a certain Ilya, an alleged agent of the Ukrainian Security Service.

The two communicated through the instant messaging application Wire, which allows sending encrypted messages, and on one occasion they even met in Istanbul.

In the video released by the FSB, Serebriakov said that his alleged Ukrainian liaison “proposed to eliminate an officer,” for which he collected components of an explosive device west of Moscow.

“On Ilya’s instructions and under Ilya’s control, I made an explosive device and installed it under a car,” he confessed.

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