A high-profile general in Russia’s military has been shot several times and wounded in Moscow.
Lt Gen Vladimir Alexeyev was immediately taken to hospital after the attack in a residential building on the north-western outskirts of the city and his condition is unknown.
Alexeyev is a top official in the main directorate of Russia’s military general staff (GRU) and he is the latest high-ranking military figure to have been targeted in the capital since the start of the war in Ukraine almost four years ago.
“The victim has been hospitalised at one of the city’s hospitals,” said Svetlana Petrenko of Russia’s Investigations Committee, which said it opened a criminal case for attempted murder.
