Senior Russian general shot several times in Moscow

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Alexeyev is deputy head of the GRU military intelligence service.

He is said to be in a serious condition following the shooting.

“According to investigators, on 6 February in a residential building located on Volokolamskoe Highway in Moscow, an as-yet-unidentified individual fired several shots at a man and fled the scene. The victim was hospitalised in a city hospital,” Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for Russia’s Investigative Committee told state news agency RIA Novosti.

Petrenko added that a search for the shooter is underway as the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office investigates.

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