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Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alexeyev, deputy head of Russia's vast GRU military ​intelligence service, was shot three times on Friday with a Makarov pistol equipped with a silencer in an apartment block on ‍the ⁠Volokolamsk highway in northern Moscow, according to investigators.googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1499653692894-0'); });

Alexeyev, 64, was rushed to hospital and underwent surgery, Russian ‍media said. The Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said in a statement that a Russian citizen named Lyubomir Korba was detained in Dubai on suspicion of carrying out the shooting. Russian investigators said Korba, born in the Ternopil region of Soviet Ukraine in 1960, was tasked by Ukrainian intelligence to carry out the shooting. Russia said Ukraine was behind the shooting but Kyiv has ‍denied involvement.

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