Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev \u2013\u00a0an official previously linked to the Salisbury poisonings<\/a> \u2013 was shot several times outside an apartment building<\/a> in an alleged assassination attempt. He is currently recovering in hospital after undergoing surgery. <\/p>\n Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB) said that a Russian citizen named Lyubomir Korba was detained in Dubai and has been extradited to Russia, in a statement on Sunday. <\/p>\n Sergei Lavrov, Russia\u2019s foreign minister accused Ukraine of the attack, which it has denied. <\/p>\n It comes as the US<\/a> is aiming to get a peace deal between Ukraine<\/a> and Russia<\/a> over the line in March despite a lack of progress on territorial concessions, according to reports.<\/p>\n President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters that the Americans \u201cwant to do everything by June\u201d in comments released on Saturday. <\/p>\n But attacks continued as Russia launched more than 400 drones and about 40 missiles on Saturday in strikes on Ukraine’s energy sector, targeting the power grid, generation facilities, and distribution substations, Zelensky said.<\/p>\n <\/a>Mother and child among three killed in Russian overnight attacks<\/p>\n At least three people were killed, including a mother and her son, during Russia\u2019s overnight attacks on Ukraine into Monday, authorities said. <\/p>\n The 10-year-old boy and his mother were killed in the attack on a residential area of the town of Bohodukhiv in the eastern Kharkiv region, the regional prosecutor’s office said, after Moscow\u2019s forces launched attacks targeting the country\u2019s east and south. <\/p>\n Six people were hurt in the attack on the region, which has been a frequent target of attacks in the nearly four-year war that started with Russian invasion in 2022, it added.<\/p>\n A “massive” Russian drone attack on the southern port city of Odesa killed one and injured two others, regional governor Oleh Kiper said.<\/p>\n Residential infrastructure and a gas pipeline were also damaged, Mr Kiper added on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n Nine people, including a 13-year-old girl, were injured in a drone attack in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, its governor, Oleksandr Hanzha, said.<\/p>\n The attack caused a fire in a three-storey building, destroying the roof, he added.<\/p>\n Alex Croft9 February 2026 07:59<\/p>\n <\/a>Russia offered US \u00a39tn cooperation deal, Zelensky says<\/p>\n Russia offered the United States a cooperation deal worth \u00a39tn in a bid for agreement between the two countries, Zelensky has said.<\/p>\n The Ukrainian leader said intelligence suggested Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev proposed US-Russian co-operation deals worth as much as $12 trillion (\u00a39tn) during negotiations.<\/p>\n He said that such agreements between Moscow and Washington must not violate Ukraine\u2019s constitution, on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cIntelligence showed me the so-called \u2018Dmitriev package\u2019 that he presented in the US \u2013 it amounts to around $12tn (\u00a39tn),\u201d Mr Zelensky said.<\/p>\n Arpan Rai9 February 2026 07:33<\/p>\n <\/a>Russia claims assassination suspects admitted they had orders from Ukraine’s spy agency<\/p>\n Russia’s Federal Security Service claimed today that two men suspected of shooting one of the country’s most senior military intelligence officers had confessed that they were carrying out orders from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).<\/p>\n Ukraine has denied any involvement in Friday’s attempted assassination of Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, deputy head of Russia’s GRU military intelligence service. Alexeyev has regained consciousness after surgery.<\/p>\n Russia said that the suspected shooter, a Ukrainian-born Russian citizen named by Moscow as Lyubomir Korba, had been questioned after he was extradited from Dubai. A suspected accomplice, Viktor Vasin, has also been questioned.<\/p>\n The FSB said in a statement that both Korba and Vasin had “confessed their guilt” and given details of the shooting which they said was “committed on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n The FSB said Korba was recruited by the SBU in August 2025 in Ternopil, western Ukraine, underwent training in Kyiv and was paid monthly in crypto-currency. For killing Alexeyev, Korba was promised $30,000 by the SBU, the FSB said.<\/p>\n The FSB said Polish intelligence was involved in his recruitment but authorities in Warsaw are yet to comment.<\/p>\n Russia hasn’t provided any evidence to support its claims.<\/p>\n Arpan Rai9 February 2026 07:06<\/p>\n <\/a>Watch: Russian strike on Odesa kills one and damages residential buildingRussian strike on Odesa kills one and damages residential building<\/p>\n Arpan Rai9 February 2026 06:45<\/p>\n <\/a>Russia’s FSB says Ukraine ordered attempt on Russian general’s life and Poland helped<\/p>\n Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said the attempted assassination of General Vladimir Alexeyev was ordered by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the Interfax news agency reported.<\/p>\n The FSB said that Polish intelligence had been involved in the recruitment of the shooter.<\/p>\n The FSB did not provide any evidence to back its claims.<\/p>\n A Ukrainian-born Russian citizen has been extradited to Moscow from Dubai on suspicion of gravely injuring Alexeyev, Russian security officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n Ukraine has denied any involvement in the attempted assassination. <\/p>\n Arpan Rai9 February 2026 06:34<\/p>\n <\/a>Shooting of Putin’s general in Moscow is a ‘serious blow’, says ex-FSB<\/p>\n After Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, deputy head of Russia’s vast GRU military intelligence service, was shot three times on Friday, questions have been raised over the safety of Russian special services.<\/p>\n The GRU, like the FSB, is a vast and powerful Russian intelligence agency that includes sleeper agents abroad, special forces units and advanced cyber capabilities.<\/p>\n Jailed Russian nationalist Igor Girkin, who has repeatedly scolded Russian generals for what he says is the shambolic prosecution of the war, praised Alexeyev’s energy and courage but said the attack was a significant setback.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a serious blow to our special services,” Girkin, himself a former FSB officer, said on Telegram.<\/p>\n Alexeyev came to national prominence in June 2023 when he was shown trying to calm down Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, during a failed mutiny.<\/p>\n In a video, Alexeyev listened as Prigozhin said he had come to take then-defence minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia’s top general, Valery Gerasimov.<\/p>\n \u201cTake them then,” Alexeyev said with a chuckle. The mutiny fizzled and Prigozhin died in a plane crash two months later.<\/p>\n Arpan Rai9 February 2026 06:09<\/p>\n <\/a>Russia accuses Ukraine’s intelligence of assassinating Putin’s general<\/p>\n Russian officials have accused Ukrainian intelligence services of aiding the assassination of Moscow\u2019s top general Vladimir Alekseyev.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s investigative committee and Federal Security Service (FSB) said they have identified and arrested a suspect who \u201carrived in Moscow in late December last year on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence services to commit a terrorist attack\u201d.<\/p>\n The top Russian agencies did not provide further details to support their claim.<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha on Friday had already stated that Kyiv has nothing to do with the assassination attempt on Alekseyev.<\/p>\n Arpan Rai9 February 2026 05:22<\/p>\n <\/a>One killed as Russia attacks Odesa overnight<\/p>\n At least one person was killed after Russian forces carried out a series of attacks overnight, officials said, targeting various cities with reported missile and drone attacks.<\/p>\n Odesa city military administration head Serhiy Lysak said a fire broke out on the roof of a multi-story building, and a gas pipeline was damaged in the attack. Car fires were also reported in the city.<\/p>\n The southern port city was subject to a large-scale drone attack and \u201cresidential infrastructure\u201d in the city was also damaged.<\/p>\n At least one person was killed as a result of the drone strike he said.<\/p>\n Russian drones attacked Odesa around 12.30am, Ukraine\u2019s Air Force and multiple explosions were heard, public broadcaster Suspilne said.<\/p>\n Arpan Rai9 February 2026 05:03<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Russia_Shooting_49843.jpg\")
A view of the apartment building where deputy chief of Russian military intelligence Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was shot and wounded in Moscow (AP)<\/p>\n