Russia said it plans to “interrogate” two suspects in the attempted assassination of a top military intelligence official who was ambushed in Moscow on Friday, a Russian newspaper reported.
Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that two suspects in the shooting of Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseev “will be interrogated soon,” citing a source close to the investigation.
After questioning, the suspects are expected to be charged, the report said, according to Reuters.
Alekseev, deputy head of Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, was shot three times in his Moscow apartment building on Friday and rushed to a hospital.
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In this image, taken from a video from the Russian Ministry of Defense press service dated June 23, 2023, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev speaks with soldiers at a secret location. (Press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense via AP)
The Associated Press reported that the business magazine Kommersant said the gunman posed as a delivery person and shot Alexeyev twice in the stairs of his apartment building, wounding him in the foot and arm. Alexeyev reportedly tried to wrest the gun away and was shot again in the chest before the attacker fled, the report said.
Kommersant reported that Alekseev underwent successful surgery and regained consciousness on Saturday, but remained under medical supervision.
Russian news channel TASS reported the operation was successful and Alekseev’s injuries were not life-threatening.
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Russian investigators and security personnel leave an apartment building in Moscow on February 6, 2026, after Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, a top Russian military intelligence official, was shot in an apparent assassination attempt. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
The outlet reported that the Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation on charges of attempted murder and illegal trafficking of firearms.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of being behind the assassination attempt, claiming – without providing evidence – that it was aimed at sabotaging the peace talks. Ukraine denied any involvement.
Alekseev, 64, is under U.S. sanctions over alleged Russian cyber interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The European Union also punished him over the 2018 poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England.
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Police officers walk past a high-rise residential building, site of an assassination attempt on Russian Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev in Moscow, February 6, 2026. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
The assassination attempt came as President Donald Trump’s administration tried to help broker peace between Russia and Ukraine.
The warring countries agreed to a prisoner swap this week, according to messages posted on X by US Special Presidential Envoy for Peacekeeping Missions Steve Witkoff and Ukrainian Minister of National Security and Defense Rustem Umerov.
