Deputy head of Russian intelligence service shot in Moscow

In the Russian capital Moscow, an unknown assailant attempted to assassinate Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the Telegram channel Astra.

The information was confirmed by Svetlana Petrenko, an official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the attack took place on the 24th floor of a building on Volokolamskoye Highway.

Petrenko said that the unknown assailant shot the general several times and then fled the scene.

As a result of the shooting, Alekseyev was wounded and hospitalized.

It is noted that Alekseyev holds the position of first deputy chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

In 2023, during the “Prigozhin mutiny,” Alekseyev made a video appeal to the fighters of the Wagner PMC, urging them to refrain from further action, and participated in negotiations with PMC leader Prigozhin.

As reported by Ukrinform, at the end of December 2025, Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, was killed in Moscow as a result of a car explosion in the morning.