Volokolamskoye Highway in Moscow, an as-yet-unidentified individual fired several shots at a man and fled the scene,” Svetlana Petrenko, the committee’s spokesperson, said in Russian on the Telegram messaging app.

A top general in Russia’s GRU, its military intelligence agency, was shot several times at a residential building in Moscow on Friday morning in an attempted assassination. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev,

A Russian general serving as deputy head of Russian military intelligence was shot and seriously wounded in Moscow on Friday, officials said – the latest in a series of attacks on top military figures.

A senior Russian military officer, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, was rushed to hospital after being shot in Moscow on Friday, investigators said, in the latest of a series of attacks on top military officials.

The agency said in a statement that the general had been taken to hospital and the suspect remained unidentified. A career military officer, Lt Gen Alekseyev is the first deputy chief of the Russian general staff,

A senior Russian military officer, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, was rushed to hospital after being shot in Moscow on Friday, investigators said, in the latest of a

Shooting of Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev marks the latest high-profile hit on Russia’s military leaders.