Overview
- Russian security services identified the suspect as Lyubomir Korba, a Russian citizen born in 1960, saying he was detained in Dubai and handed over to Moscow.
- Authorities named two alleged accomplices, stating that Vasin Viktor was arrested in Moscow and that Serebritskaya Zinaida fled to Ukraine.
- Deputy GRU chief Vladimir Alekseyev underwent emergency surgery, emerged from a medically induced coma, and is no longer in life-threatening condition, according to TASS-cited medical sources.
- Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed Ukraine for the attack, while Ukraine’s Andrii Sybiha told Reuters that Kyiv had no involvement and suggested it could reflect internal Russian infighting.
- Alekseyev is a longtime GRU figure described as the agency’s No. 2 since 2011 and is under U.S. and EU sanctions for past operations linked to Russia’s activities against Ukraine.