A senior Russian army official was shot in Moscow and has been hospitalized, authorities stated early Friday, within the newest assault on the nation’s high army brass.
Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, a deputy chief of Russian army intelligence, was shot a number of occasions by an unknown assailant in a residential constructing within the northwest of the capital, Russia’s Investigative Committee stated in a press release.
The alleged shooter fled from the scene, the assertion stated.
Investigators have opened a legal case, and are talking with eyewitnesses and reviewing surveillance footage, it added.
The assertion didn’t element Alekseyev’s situation or specify who could also be behind the assault.
Alekseyev performed a distinguished position throughout the mutiny by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in the summertime of 2023. He was filmed talking to Prigozhin and later recorded a video calling the rebellion a stab behind President Vladimir Putin and an tried coup.
Alekseyev was awarded the Hero of Russia award in 2017, in accordance with state media company Ria.
The capturing comes a day after the newest trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi between the U.S., Ukraine and Russia, whose delegation is led by the chief of army intelligence, Adm. Igor Kostyukov.
After the talks, Washington and Moscow introduced that that they had agreed to reestablish excessive stage military-to-military dialogue, which was suspended in 2021.
The capturing of Alekseyev is the most recent in a spate of assaults towards senior army figures inside Russia, a lot of which have been blamed on Ukraine.
Simply over a month in the past, one other high-ranking Russian army official, Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, was killed by a bomb that exploded beneath his automobile in Moscow. In April, Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik was additionally killed in a automobile bomb within the Moscow area, which the Kremlin accused Ukraine of orchestrating. And in December 2024, Ukraine’s safety service claimed accountability for killing the pinnacle of Russia’s chemical, radiological and organic weapons unit, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov.
There was no speedy response from Kyiv on Friday to Alekseyev’s capturing.
It is a growing story. Test again for updates.
