Russia claims to have identified three suspects involved in the attempted murder of General Vladimir Alexeyev, a prominent soldier of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation shot several times in a residential building in the northwest of Moscow last Friday, February 6th.
Among them is the person responsible for the shooting, identified as Russian citizen Lyubomir Korba, was arrested this Sunday, the 9th, in Dubai.
Korba will be in his 60s and will have fled to the United Arab Emirates after the shooting, having now been detained and handed over to Russian authorities, according to the FSB, the Russian secret, cited by the media in that country.
According to the BBC, The Russian Investigative Committee stated that Korba arrived in Moscow at the end of December “on a mission by the Ukrainian secret services to commit a terrorist attack”. Kiev denied any involvement in a case that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov classified as a “terrorist incident”, guaranteeing, without presenting evidence to that effect, that it was carried out with the intention of derailing negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the USA to put an end to the war that began with the Russian invasion of February 24, 2022.
General Alexeyev, 64 years oldwas taken to hospital after Friday’s attack. According to reports in the Russian press, he regained consciousness after undergoing surgery. Born in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, the military is deputy director of Russia’s military intelligence agency, GRU, a unit of the Ministry of Defense known for organizing covert operations abroad, including assassinations, sabotage and espionage.
He was one of the officers who provided information to President Vladimir Putin for the invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago. According to the The Guardianhas been described as an important figure in the oversight of the country’s private military companies and was among the senior officials sent to negotiate with Yevgeny Prigozhin during the Wagner group uprising in the summer of 2023. Afterwards, Alekseyev appeared to have fallen out of favor in Moscow and was even briefly detained due to his links to the Wagner group, but ended up retaining his position.
The general is one of the officials under US sanctions for his alleged involvement in attempts to interfere in the 2020 US presidential elections. The UK also imposed sanctions against Alekseyev for the deadly Novichok nerve agent attack in Salisbury in 2018 that targeted double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.
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