MOSCOW ¨C A Ukrainian-born Russian citizen has been extradited to Moscow from Dubai on suspicion of gravely injuring one of Russia¡¯s most senior military intelligence officers, Russian security officials and investigators said on Sunday.
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, deputy head of Russia¡¯s vast GRU military intelligence service, was shot three times on ?Friday with a Makarov pistol equipped with a silencer in an apartment block on the Volokolamsk highway in northern Moscow, according to ?investigators.
Alexeyev, 64, ?was rushed to hospital and underwent surgery. His wife told a Russian war blogger on Sunday ?that Alexeyev had regained consciousness and was able to talk.
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