Russian FM Sergei Lavrov accuses Ukraine of orchestrating assassination attempt to sabotage peace talks
Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev pictured in June 2023. PHOTO: Russian Defence Ministry/Reuters
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Sunday that the man suspected of shooting top Russian military intelligence officer Vladimir Alexeyev in Moscow has been detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia.
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, deputy head of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence arm, was shot several times in an apartment block in Moscow on Friday, investigators said. He underwent surgery after the shooting, Russian media said.
The FSB said a Russian citizen named Lyubomir Korba was detained in Dubai on suspicion of carrying out the shooting.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of being behind the assassination attempt, which he said was designed to sabotage peace talks. Ukraine said it had nothing to do with the shooting.
Alexeyev, 64, was placed under US sanctions over Russian cyber interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
The EU imposed sanctions on him over the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury in 2018.
