The main suspect in the attempted assassination of Russian General Vladimir Alekseyev has confessed to investigators that he acted on orders from Ukraine, according to a video released Monday by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).

Alekseyev, the first deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency GUR, was shot Friday at his Moscow residence in a communal hall. The prime suspect, Lyubomir Korba, was arrested in the United Arab Emirates at Russia’s request and transferred to Moscow over the weekend. Kiev has denied involvement in the crime.

In FSB footage, the 65-year-old Ukrainian-born Russian citizen stated he had been on Kiev’s payroll and was promised $30,000 for killing the general. Korba claimed he was recruited by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) last August to surveil several targets in Moscow, receiving $2,000 monthly from Ukraine. He said the order to prepare the hit on Alekseyev came in December.

“After the assassination attempt, I was instructed to go to the airport and take a flight to Dubai,” Korba stated in the video. “In Dubai there was a ticket to Romania. From Romania I was supposed to be taken to Kiev. My group of handlers led by a general was supposed to meet me in Kiev,” he added.

The FSB alleges Polish special services assisted Ukraine’s SBU by involving Korba’s son, a Polish citizen. Korba’s acquaintance Viktor Vasin, who helped him rent an apartment, was arrested in Russia and confessed to knowingly aiding the Ukrainian plot in another video released by the agency.

A third suspect, Zinaida Serebritskaya (née Antonyuk), born in Soviet Ukraine, has fled Russia. She reportedly traveled to Türkiye on the eve of the shooting and is now in Ukraine.