Putin, Uzbek counterpart discuss fight against terrorism in phone call, Kremlin says

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev discussed the cooperation of their two countries in the fight against terrorism in a phone call on Thursday, the Kremlin said.

Mirziyoyev expressed his condolences to Putin for the death of General Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, and his assistant, who were killed by a bomb in Moscow on Tuesday.

Ukraine's SBU intelligence service took responsibility for the killing after Ukraine accused Kirillov of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops - something Moscow denies.

An Uzbek man was arrested and charged with terrorism on Thursday by a Moscow court.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and the security services of Uzbekistan are working together to identify accomplices in the killings, the TASS state news agency reported on Thursday.

The Uzbek side was providing "all possible assistance", TASS cited the FSB as saying.