Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev was shot and seriously wounded inside an apartment building in Moscow.
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Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev was shot and seriously wounded inside an apartment building in Moscow.
An assassination attempt was carried out on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, First Deputy Head of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), in Moscow on 6 February
Alekseev was shot multiple times in Moscow by an unknown assailant
Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was shot several times in the stairwell of his apartment building on Volokolamskoye Highway and hospitalized in critical condition but regained consciousness after surgery.
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