Overview
- Russian General-Lieutenant Vladimir Alexeyev, the GRU’s deputy chief, was shot multiple times in a Moscow residential building and hospitalized, with investigators opening an attempted murder case and searching for the assailant.
- Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed Ukraine for seeking to derail talks, while Kyiv offered no official comment; the latest Abu Dhabi round had been led on the Russian side by GRU chief Igor Kostyukov.
- Russian outlets reported the gunman struck near an elevator and fled as authorities reviewed CCTV, prompting fresh debate in Moscow over protection for senior military figures.
- In Germany, a murder warrant was issued for 17-year-old Angela R. in the Castrop-Rauxel stabbing after phone forensics indicated a planned killing, and police said she remains at large.
- Following the fatal assault on train conductor Serkan C., mourners gathered as Deutsche Bahn’s chief called a security summit, and police prepared heightened measures in Unna after a courtroom dispute spilled into a mass brawl with seven injured.