6.2.2026
A top Russian military intelligence general was shot in a Moscow apartment building Friday and hospitalized, the Kremlin said, depicting it as an assassination attempt orchestrated by Ukraine.
There was no comment from Kyiv, which has claimed responsibility for the killings of several high-ranking military officials since Moscow launched its full-scale offensive in February 2022.
Russian investigators said Vladimir Alekseyev — the deputy head of Moscow’s GRU military intelligence, sanctioned in the West for his alleged role in cyberattacks and charges that he organized a nerve agent attack on a Russian defector in Britain — was shot by an “unidentified individual.”
The investigators said the suspect fled the scene and the general was admitted to a hospital.
In televised comments, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of being behind the “terrorist act” as it tries to “disrupt the negotiation process” searching for an end to the four-year war.
The Kremlin said its secret services were investigating the incident and keeping President Vladimir Putin informed.
“The special services are doing their job,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
“We wish the general a speedy recovery. We hope that will be the case,” he added.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said Friday Alekseyev had been hit by “several shots.” There was no update on his condition other than that he had been hospitalized.
“Investigative actions and operational search measures are being carried out to identify the person or persons involved in committing the aforementioned crime,” Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement. AP reports