A man suspected of shooting and wounding senior Russian military intelligence officer Vladimir Alexeyev in Moscow has been arrested in Dubai and brought to Russia, the FSB security service said Sunday.

A man in his 60s identified as Lyubomir Korba was "arrested and handed over to Russia" after fleeing to the United Arab Emirates, the law enforcement agency said. A suspected accomplice was arrested in Moscow, while another is believed to have escaped to Ukraine.

An FSB video showed what appeared to be a blindfolded Korba being escoated by masked officers from a small jet in Russia at night.

Alexeyev, a lieutenant general who serves as first deputy head of Russia's GRU military intelligence service, was hospitalized after being shot several times at an apartment in Moscow on Friday morning.

The apparent assassination attempt is just the latest in a string of attacks inside Russia targeting senior military officials. Since December 2024, three generals have been killed in or near Moscow, with the most recent killing having taken place late last year.

Russian investigators said Ukrainian intelligence services tasked Korba along with his accomplices to carry out Friday's shooting of Alexeyev. Earlier, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of orchestrating the attack in an effort to derail ongoing talks to end the war.

President Vladimir Putin on Saturday thanked UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for assistance in the detention of Korba, the Kremlin said.

No one has claimed responsibility for the shooting, but Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha dismissed allegations that Kyiv was involved and suggested the apparent assassination attempt of Alexeyev was the result of "internal Russian infighting."

The latest shooting of a Russian general has raised questions about how the military protects some of its key personnel, with pro-war figures criticizing the country's security services for failing to thwart such attacks.

Alexeyev, who was born in Soviet Ukraine's Vinnytsia region, began his career in the Spetsnaz special forces. He was placed in charge of intelligence operations in Ukraine after President Vladimir Putin sidelined the FSB security service in the early months of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The United States sanctioned the general for alleged cyber operations targeting the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The European Union sanctioned him for the 2018 poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Scribal and his daughter Yulia in the United Kingdom.

AFP contributed reporting.

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