A top Russian military general has been rushed to hospital after being shot several times in Moscow in what is being described as an assassination attempt.
The senior Russian military official Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev Alexeyev serves as deputy head of the Defence Ministry's Main Directorate of the General Staff. He was among the senior officials dispatched to hold talks with mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin during the brief mutiny in June 2023.
An unknown assailant fired several shots at Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev in a residential building in the northwest of the city this morning before they fled, the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Investigators are reviewing CCTV footage and a search to find the perpetrator is under way.
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