The lieutenant general, first deputy commander of the General Staff of the Russian Army, was hospitalized today with gunshot wounds after an attack in Moscow, according to the Russian Instruction Committee (CIR).
CIR spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko informed RIA Novosti that this Friday “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 hospitals.”
a heavy weight
Alexéev is known for being one of the senior officers of the Russian Army who tried to negotiate in Rostov with the head of the , Yevgeny Prigozhin, during the rebellion carried out by this paramilitary formation in mid-2023.
It was placed under European Union (EU) sanctions after the GRU, the Central Intelligence Department, was accused of being behind a 2018 nerve agent attack in , in the United Kingdom.
“At this time, the investigators and criminalists of the capital department of the CIR are working at the scene, the security camera recordings are being studied, witnesses to the event are being questioned,” added Petrenko, noting that they are seeking to identify the people linked to the attack.
Russian authorities opened criminal cases for attempted murder and illegal arms trafficking, he said.
kyiv thing?
At the moment, the CIR has not formulated versions about the motives for the attack, despite the fact that several senior commanders of the Armed Forces in attacks organized by Ukrainian military intelligence, something for which kyiv has not wanted to take responsibility in public but for which it has publicly rejoiced.
The bodies of General Kirilov and his assistant, lying in the snow after today’s attack in Moscow.
The most recent case was that of the chief of operations of the General Staff of the Russian Army, Fanil Sarvárov, who died last December in Moscow as a result of a car bomb explosion, the fourth Russian general to die in bomb attacks since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
In addition, Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov also lost his life, murdered on December 17, 2024 in a bomb attack when he was leaving his home; Russian Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the General Staff Operations Command, and Captain Valeri Trankovski, deputy commander of the 41st Missile Ship Brigade of the Russian Fleet.
