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A high-ranking Russian general and US official military intelligence services has received several shots fired by an unidentified gunman in Moscow this Friday. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev was immediately taken to hospital after the attack on a residential building on the northwestern outskirts of the capital. According to reports, The attacker fled the scene.
Alekseyev’s condition is unknown at this time, but He is said to have survived the shooting.according to Russian media reports. Russian media claim that “the killer I was waiting to the lieutenant general of the Russian Ministry of Defense near a residential building.
The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for “attempted murder.” Alekseyev is the first deputy head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces (GRU). He is the number two of the GRU since 2011.
He was sanctioned by the United States in 2016 for being the brain of “malicious cyber activities” during the US presidential elections of that same year.
Alekseyev has also been accused by the United Kingdom and the EU of orchestrate chemical weapons attack novichok in Salisbury in 2018 that targeted Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
Both survived, but a british citizen who later found novichok, hidden in a perfume bottledied from the consequences of exposure to it. The Kremlin awarded him the title of Hero of the Russian Federation in 2019.
