{"id":452240,"date":"2026-02-06T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452240\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:24:07","slug":"russian-general-hospitalized-in-shooting-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452240\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian general hospitalized in shooting, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russia\/t-19065060\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russian<\/a> general was shot at an apartment building in Moscow on Friday and taken to a hospital, Russian officials\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement\u00a0said &#8220;an unidentified individual fired several shots&#8221; at\u00a0at Vladimir Alekseyev, who is\u00a0deputy chief of military intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson did not say who could be behind the shooting, and did not provide immediate information about\u00a0Alekseyev&#8217;s condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alekseyev has served as deputy chief of Russian military intelligence since 2011, and led intelligence operations during Russia&#8217;s intervention in the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/the-fall-of-the-assad-regime-syrians-hopes-and-fears-for-the-future\/a-73487887\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syrian civil war.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"75834843\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/75834843_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"A Russian Defense Ministry file photo of Vladimir Alekseyev from 2023\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>Vladimir Alekseyev has been deputy head of Russia&#8217;s military intelligence since 2011Image: Russian Defence Ministry\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Russian military officers targeted in the past<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russias-war-in-ukraine\/t-60931789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war in Ukraine<\/a>, several top Russian military officers have been assassinated. The latest incident involved Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, \u200cwho was \u200ckilled by a bomb under his car on December 22.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2025, senior Russian military officer, Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik,\u00a0was killed by a car bomb\u00a0near his apartment building\u00a0outside Moscow. A suspected perpetrator was quickly arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has blamed previous assassinations on Kyiv. In\u00a0some cases, Ukrainian military intelligence has claimed responsibility, such as with\u00a0the December 2024 killing of\u00a0Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian army&#8217;s chemical weapons division, who was killed by a bomb hidden on an electric scooter outside his apartment building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Edited by: Wesley Dockery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian general was shot at an apartment building in Moscow on Friday and taken to a hospital,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-452240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}