General Vladimir Alexeyev, who served as deputy head of the Russian intelligence services, was hospitalized this Friday (6) with gunshot wounds following an attack in Moscow, according to the Russian Instructional Committee (CIR).
CIR spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko told the news agency RIA Novosti that “an unidentified person fired several shots” at the general in a building located on the Volokolamsk highway, northwest of the Russian capital, “and fled the scene.”
According to Petrenko, “the victim was urgently hospitalized in one of the city’s hospitals.”
Alexeyev is known for being one of the senior officers of the Russian Army who tried to negotiate in Rostov with the head of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, during the rebellion led by this paramilitary formation in mid-2023.
“At this moment, investigators and criminal experts from the capital’s CIR department are working at the scene of the incident, recordings from security cameras are being studied and witnesses to what happened are being interrogated,” added Petrenko, signaling that they are seeking to identify the people linked to the attack.
Russian authorities have opened criminal cases for attempted murder and illegal arms trafficking, the spokeswoman said.
So far, the CIR has not formulated versions of the reasons for the attack, despite the fact that several senior officers of the Russian Armed Forces have died in recent years in attacks organized by Ukrainian military intelligence.
The most recent case was that of the chief of operations of the General Staff of the Russian Army, Fanil Sarvarov, killed in December last year in Moscow as a result of a car bomb explosion, becoming the fourth Russian general killed in explosive attacks since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov also lost his life, murdered on December 17, 2024 in a bomb attack as he left his residence; Russian Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the General Staff Operations Command; and sea and war captain Valery Trankovsky, deputy commander of the 41st Brigade of missile carriers of the Black Sea Fleet.
