It's been reported that a top Russian military intelligence official has been shot and severely wounded in Moscow. Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, the deputy head of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service, was shot in a residential building earlier today. A close ally of Russian war criminal Putin, he's responsible for criminal activities aimed not only at Ukraine but at the U.S. and its allies:
"Alekseyev has been transferred to a city hospital, the Investigative Committee statement said. He is in intensive care and in a serious condition following the shooting, according to Russian state media.
Alekseyev, 64, is the first deputy head of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate, the GRU. The Russian general was one of several GRU officials sanctioned by the United States in 2016 for wide-ranging malicious cyber activity directed at undermining US democratic processes.
He was also sanctioned by the European Union in January 2019 following a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, England, which the British government said was carried out by GRU agents to poison a former Russian spy. The EU sanctions describe Alekseyev as 'responsible for the possession, transport and use in Salisbury… of the toxic nerve agent ‘Novichok’ by officers from the GRU,' along with sanctioned Russian military intelligence chief Igor Kostyukov.'" (our emphasis)
While Russian officials have blamed Ukraine for the assault on Alekseyev, Ukraine has not commented on it thus far. If Ukraine were responsible, it would be another coup for their clandestine service, the SBU.
Russia has lost a reported 19 generals since their invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many near war zones, but occasionally through attacks deep within Russia. Since their brutal invasion, Russia's losses are estimated to be 1.2 million killed, wounded or missing, with some 325,000 killed.
(photo: Poisoner extraordinaire Alekseyev. East 2 West)
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