Overview
- Russia’s Investigative Committee says an unidentified attacker shot Alekseyev inside a residential building on Volokolamskoye Avenue and fled, and the GRU deputy was taken to hospital.
- Dmitry Peskov said security and intelligence services are working the case, and no claim of responsibility or verified attribution has been made.
- Sergei Lavrov accused Kyiv of trying to sabotage the negotiating process that followed trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, a charge Ukraine has not claimed or addressed in the reports cited.
- Alekseyev has served as the GRU’s first deputy since 2011, was involved in operations tied to Syria and Ukraine and in talks during Wagner’s 2023 mutiny, and is under US and EU sanctions over alleged election interference and the Skripal poisoning.
- Recent reporting notes a broader pattern of attacks on senior Russian security figures, and outlets say the Russia‑Ukraine‑US channel is expected to reconvene in the coming weeks.