{"id":284003,"date":"2026-02-06T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284003\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:16:08","slug":"russian-general-shot-several-times-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284003\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian general shot several times in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Russian general was shot and injured in a Moscow apartment building, officials have said, in the latest apparent assassination attempt of a top Russian military figure.<\/p>\n

Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said “an unidentified individual fired several shots” at Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, a general who has a senior role in Russia’s general staff, before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n

“The victim has been hospitalised,” the agency added in a statement.<\/p>\n

It did not say anything about the suspected perpetrator.<\/p>\n

Several high-ranking military officials have been killed since Moscow launched its full-scale offensive on Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has claimed responsibility for some of the killings.<\/p>\n

\"Senior<\/p>\n

A career military officer, Lt Gen Alekseyev is the first deputy chief of the Russian general staff, according to his online biography.<\/p>\n

He led intelligence operations during the Russian intervention in Syria to support now-ousted leader Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n

He was also dispatched to negotiate with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin during his attempted mutiny against Russian military top brass in 2023.<\/p>\n

“Investigative actions and operational search measures are being carried out to identify the person or persons involved in committing the aforementioned crime,” Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Last month, a Russian court sentenced an Uzbek man to life in prison for the 2024 killing of the head of the Russian army’s radiological, chemical and biological defence forces.<\/p>\n

The general, Igor Kirillov, was killed when a scooter exploded as he left an apartment block in Moscow, in an attack Ukraine said it had orchestrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian general was shot and injured in a Moscow apartment building, officials have said, in the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-284003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}