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A senior Russian military official has been hospitalised after being shot several times in Moscow, according to state media, quoting Russian officials.
An unknown assailant carried out a gun attack on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, deputy chief of Russian military intelligence, in a residential building, Svetlana Petrenko, spokesperson for the Russian Investigative Committee (ICR), said on Friday.
Alekseyev is deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
Petrenko told reporters that a criminal investigation has been opened for attempted murder and illegal trafficking in firearms regarding the incident, according to the Interfax news agency.
She said the shooting attack took place in a building on Volokolamsk Highway in Moscow, and the suspect fled the scene.
“The victim was hospitalised in one of the city hospitals,” Petrenko said, adding that investigators and forensic experts are currently working at the scene of the incident, reviewing security camera footage and questioning witnesses.
The Kommersant daily, quoting law enforcement sources, said Alekseyev’s attacker had been waiting when he left his flat to go to work and that the general had sustained gunshot wounds to an arm, a leg and his chest during a struggle.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Kyiv, without providing any evidence, of being behind the assassination attempt, claiming it was designed to sabotage the peace talks on the war in Ukraine.
There has been no comment from Ukraine on the shooting.
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An unknown assailant carried out a gun attack on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, deputy chief of Russian military intelligence, in a residential building, Svetlana Petrenko, spokesperson for the Russian Investigative Committee (ICR), said on Friday.
Alekseyev is deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
Petrenko told reporters that a criminal investigation has been opened for attempted murder and illegal trafficking in firearms regarding the incident, according to the Interfax news agency.
She said the shooting attack took place in a building on Volokolamsk Highway in Moscow, and the suspect fled the scene.
“The victim was hospitalised in one of the city hospitals,” Petrenko said, adding that investigators and forensic experts are currently working at the scene of the incident, reviewing security camera footage and questioning witnesses.
The Kommersant daily, quoting law enforcement sources, said Alekseyev’s attacker had been waiting when he left his flat to go to work and that the general had sustained gunshot wounds to an arm, a leg and his chest during a struggle.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Kyiv, without providing any evidence, of being behind the assassination attempt, claiming it was designed to sabotage the peace talks on the war in Ukraine.
There has been no comment from Ukraine on the shooting.
Senior Russian officer shot in Moscow in apparent assassination attempt
An unidentified individual has shot Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev before fleeing the scene, authorities say.
