Russia restated on Monday, February 9th, that a gunman who shot and wounded a top Russian military intelligence officer in Moscow last—week before fleeing to Dubai—was acting on Kyiv’s orders.
High-ranking general Vladimir Alekseyev was shot several times in his apartment block in Moscow and was hospitalized.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has not commented on the shooting, while the Kremlin admitted last week that army officials in Russia were under threat during the offensive in Ukraine.
Russia’s FSB security service said that Russian citizen Lyubomir Korba shot Alekseyev “on the orders of Ukraine’s SBU” security services after being recruited and trained in Ukraine. The FSB said Korba was recruited in Ukraine’s Ternopil last year and sent into Russia through Moldova and Georgia. It claimed that he was promised $30,000 for the killing and that on:
On the day of the assassination, Korba got into the building where the military man lived, waited until he appeared in the lift lobby and shot four times.
Ukraine has claimed some of the killings in Russia, but has denied being behind the attempt on Alekseyev. There has been a string of assassinations of Russian army officials on Russian soil during the nearly four year long war.
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