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Who attacked the Russian intelligence general? Two people arrested, suspicions
2026-02-07 15:39:09 / BOTA
Russian law enforcement agencies have detained a suspect and his accomplice also suspected in a reported assassination attempt on the deputy head of the GRU military intelligence agency, Vladimir Alekseyev , according to Russian media reports on February 7.
According to Kommersant, the suspect has already been questioned and a court hearing to determine his pre-trial detention is expected to be held on February 8. The newspaper reported that a criminal case has been opened on charges of attempted murder and illegal arms trafficking.
After questioning, the suspects will be charged, the newspaper reported, without confirming whether the suspects had been detained. Russia has not officially reported the suspects' detention.
According to Kommersant, Alekseyev underwent a successful operation and regained consciousness on February 7, but remained under medical supervision. No official statement has been made on his condition.
According to Russian news channels on Telegram, Mash and Baza, the person who shot Alekseyev is "being transported from Dubai," and that a suspected accomplice has been detained with him.
There is still no information on the identity of the suspect or alleged perpetrators of the attack. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of being behind the assassination attempt, saying — without providing evidence — that it was designed to sabotage peace talks.
The number two GRU officer was shot and wounded in Moscow on February 6, in what investigators described as an assassination attempt.
Kommersant reported that investigators believe Alekseyev was shot by a person posing as a food delivery man who entered his building. The newspaper said Alekseyev, who was on his way to work, was shot twice on the building's stairs and then a third time as he tried to resist the attack, after which the attacker fled the scene.
Alekseyev is the deputy commander of the GRU, the Defense Ministry's intelligence agency, known for daring operations ranging from sabotage, assassinations, espionage and cyberattacks.
Britain has implicated Alekseyev in the near-fatal Novichok poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain in 2018. A British woman died after being inadvertently exposed to the poison.
He has also been linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who co-founded Russia's most notorious mercenary company, the Wagner Group. Prigozhin died in a plane crash in August 2023, which Western intelligence officials later concluded was an assassination.
The US Treasury Department hit Alekseyev and other GRU officers with financial sanctions for hacking American political parties and other cyber espionage operations.
If it is confirmed that Alekseyev was the target of an assassination attempt, it would be the latest in a series of attacks on senior Russian military officials — many of them in Moscow.
Suspicion for these attacks has fallen largely on Ukrainian intelligence agencies, which have carried out their own daring sabotage and assassination operations inside Russia in recent years.
In December, the head of the General Staff's operational training directorate, Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, died after a bomb exploded under his car on the outskirts of Moscow.
Eight months ago, another lieutenant general, Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the General Staff's operational directorate, was killed in a car explosion outside Moscow.
And in 2024, the officer in charge of Russia's nuclear and chemical weapons defense forces was killed when an electric scooter exploded on the sidewalk in front of his apartment building in Moscow. /REL
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