Vladimir Alexeyev, deputy director of Russian military intelligence, was shot and wounded on Friday in Moscow and then hospitalized. His attacker, not yet identified by the authorities, fled, according to the Russian Investigative Committee

Published on: 06/02/2026 - 10:27

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A senior Russian military official was injured by gunfire on Friday February 6 in a residential building in the northwest of Moscow and hospitalized, the Russian Investigative Committee announced.

“An unidentified person fired several shots” at General Vladimir Alekseyev, a senior official in the Russian military intelligence service, before fleeing, the Committee said in a statement. “The victim was hospitalized,” he said, announcing the opening of an investigation for “attempted assassination” and “arms trafficking”.

No leads were immediately mentioned.

According to his official biography, General Vladimir Alekseyev, 64, particularly distinguished himself during intelligence operations in Syria where Russia intervened militarily in 2015 against the jihadists and in support of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

A leading figure

Vladimir Alekseyev is the first deputy of General Igor Kostioukov, who heads Russian military intelligence (GRU). The latter was at the head of the Russian delegation during recent talks between Moscow and kyiv in the presence of the Americans in Abu Dhabi on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.

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Since the start of Russia's large-scale assault on Ukraine in February 2022, several Russian generals, local officials and public figures supporting the conflict have been killed in explosions on Russian territory or in occupied Ukraine. These assassinations were sometimes claimed by kyiv.

The last officer killed, General Fanil Sarvarov, died in a car bomb explosion on December 22.

With AFP and Reuters

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