Overview
- Vladimir Alekseyev, a 64-year-old senior Russian military intelligence official and head of Moscow's delegation to talks with Ukraine, was shot in Moscow on February 6 and remains hospitalized.
- The FSB says the alleged gunman, Liubomir Korba, born in 1960, was detained in Dubai and transferred to Russia, while suspected accomplice Viktor Vassine was arrested in Moscow and Zinaida Serebritskaia fled to Ukraine.
- According to the FSB, Korba and Vassine confessed and described an operation directed by Ukraine's security service that included training in Kyiv and a promised $30,000 payment.
- Investigators cited by the FSB say four shots were fired inside Alekseyev's residential building using a pistol with a suppressor and access was enabled with an electronic key to the entrance.
- Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, have blamed Kyiv and warned of consequences for ongoing negotiations, and reporters note the attack fits a wider pattern of targeted killings linked to the war.