{"id":414518,"date":"2026-02-08T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414518\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:55:07","slug":"russia-says-man-suspected-of-shooting-general-detained-in-dubai-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414518\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says man suspected of shooting general detained in Dubai | Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A Russian man suspected of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/06\/russia-military-general-vladimir-alekseyev\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting and wounding the senior Russian military intelligence officer<\/a> Vladimir Alekseyev in Moscow has been arrested in Dubai, the Russian FSB security service has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The man, in his 60s, was \u201carrested and handed over to Russia\u201d after fleeing to the United Arab Emirates, while a suspected accomplice was arrested in Moscow and another escaped to Ukraine, Russian media quoted the FSB as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Several high-ranking military officials have been assassinated in Russia and in Moscow-controlled Ukrainian territory since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbour in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Alekseyev, the deputy head of Russia\u2019s GRU military intelligence service, was shot in a Moscow apartment on Friday and admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He is under western sanctions for his alleged role in cyberattacks and the organisation of a nerve agent attack on the Russian defector Sergei Skripal in Britain in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has accused Ukraine of masterminding the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Kyiv, which has claimed responsibility for the killing of several high-ranking Russian military officials since the start of the war, has not commented in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian man suspected of shooting and wounding the senior Russian military intelligence officer Vladimir Alekseyev in Moscow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-414518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}