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A Russian general has been shot in an apparent assassination attempt Moscow.

Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev was taken to hospital after being shot at several times in the Russian capital on Friday morning, state media reported.

“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,” a spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, told RIA Novosti.

The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office is investigating and a search for the shooter is under way. Investigators and forensic experts are reviewing CCTV footage and interviewing eyewitnesses.

Alexeyev is deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff at the Defence Ministry. When Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin staged a short-lived mutiny in June 2023, Alexeyev was one of the top officials who were sent to negotiate with him.

Several senior [Russian](https://inews.co.uk/topic/russia?srsltid=AfmBOopJZgZgDkAV3KKSGsxxhJTj95I8JOoQqWFC-jzqPGd_qvY6qmer&ico=in-line_link) military officials have been [assassinated deep inside the country](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/ukraines-assassination-campaign-deep-behind-enemy-lines-4128806?srsltid=AfmBOooy33s9uvdYLVH5w_dTgeLyhohpUbALSocWqVHtxe7buQ8XWI1_&ico=in-line_link) since the start of the war in Ukraine, with Moscow blaming the attacks on Kyiv.

*This is a breaking story and is being updated*

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