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Russia’s Federal Safety Service stated Sunday that the person suspected of taking pictures a deputy chief of Russia’s army intelligence company in Moscow was detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia.
Lt.-Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was hospitalized after being shot a number of instances on Friday by an assailant at an condominium constructing in northwestern Moscow, Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko stated. The assault adopted a collection of assassinations of senior army officers that Russia has blamed on Ukraine.
The Federal Safety Service (FSB) stated a Russian citizen, Lyubomir Korba, was detained in Dubai on suspicion of finishing up the taking pictures. In an announcement on its web site, FSB stated it had additionally recognized two “accomplices,” one in every of whom was detained in Moscow and one other who “left for Ukraine.”
Requested in regards to the taking pictures, Russian Overseas Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov stated Friday it might be as much as regulation enforcement businesses to pursue the investigation however described it as an obvious “terrorist act” by Ukraine supposed to derail peace talks.
There was no fast response from Kyiv to a request for touch upon the Russian allegations.
Capturing follows peace talks in Abu Dhabi
The taking pictures got here a day after Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators wrapped up two days of talks in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, geared toward ending the practically four-year-old battle in Ukraine. The Russian delegation was led by Alekseyev’s boss, army intelligence chief Admiral Igor Kostyukov.
Alekseyev, 64, has served as the primary deputy head of Russia’s army intelligence company, often known as the GRU, since 2011.
He was adorned with the Hero of Russia medal for his function in Moscow’s army marketing campaign in Syria. In June 2023, he was proven on state TV chatting with mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, when his Wagner Group seized the army headquarters within the southern metropolis of Rostov-on-Don throughout his short-lived mutiny.
Since Moscow despatched troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Russian authorities have blamed Kyiv for a number of assassinations of army officers and public figures in Russia. Ukraine has claimed duty for a few of them.
In December, a automobile bomb killed Lt.-Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Coaching Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ Common Workers.
In April, one other senior Russian army officer, Lt.-Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the primary operational division within the Common Workers, was killed by a bomb positioned in his automobile parked close to his condominium constructing simply exterior Moscow. A Russian man who beforehand lived in Ukraine pleaded responsible to finishing up the assault and stated he had been paid by Ukraine’s safety providers.
Days after Moskalik’s killing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he obtained a report from the top of Ukraine’s international intelligence company on the “liquidation” of high Russian army figures, including that “justice inevitably comes” — though he did not point out Moskalik’s identify.
In December 2024, Lt.-Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the army’s nuclear, organic and chemical safety forces, was killed by a bomb hidden on an electrical scooter exterior his condominium constructing. Kirillov’s assistant additionally died. Ukraine’s safety service claimed duty for the assault.
Deadly Russian airstrike hits Ukraine in a single day
A Russian airstrike on a residential space in jap Ukraine killed one individual and wounded two, officers stated Sunday, after Zelenskyy stated the U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to achieve a peace deal.
The assault on town of Kramatorsk, in Ukraine’s Donetsk area, prompted a fireplace in a nine-storey condominium block, in line with Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.
Russia additionally struck vitality infrastructure in Ukraine’s Poltava area in a single day into Sunday, stated Serhii Koretskyi, chief govt of Ukraine’s state-owned fuel firm, Naftogaz.
Russia has hammered Ukraine’s energy grid, particularly in winter, all through the struggle. It goals to weaken the Ukrainian will to withstand in a method that Kyiv officers name “weaponizing winter.”
Zelenskyy informed reporters on Friday that the U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to achieve a deal to finish the struggle. If the June deadline just isn’t met, the Trump administration will seemingly put strain on each side, he stated.
“The People are proposing the events finish the struggle by the start of this summer season and can in all probability put strain on the events exactly in line with this schedule,” the Ukrainian president stated. “They usually say that they wish to do all the things by June. And they’ll do all the things to finish the struggle. They usually desire a clear schedule of all occasions.”
