Accomplices In Assassination Attempt On General Alexeev Identified

The Federal Security Service (FSB), in cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), has identified the accomplices involved in the assassination attempt on General Vladimir Alexeev, the FSB Public Relations Center reported.

"Following operational-search activities conducted by the FSB and MVD within the framework of the criminal case opened by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation concerning the assassination attempt on the First Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeev, the accomplices of this crime have been identified," the statement said.

The accomplices in the assassination attempt on General Vladimir Alexeev have been identified as Russian citizens Viktor Vasinin and Zinaida Serebritskaya, the FSB Public Relations Center reported.

"In the framework of the criminal case opened by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation regarding the assassination attempt on the First Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeev, the accomplices of this crime have been identified: Russian citizens Vasinin Viktor, born in 1959, and Serebritskaya Zinaida, born in 1971," the statement reads.

As previously reported by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, an unknown assailant shot at Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeev in a residential building in Moscow on February 6. He was hospitalized. A criminal case has been opened on charges of attempted murder and illegal possession of firearms. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that the assassination attempt on Alexeev demonstrates that Ukraine is willing to engage in constant provocations aimed at disrupting the negotiation process.

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