MOSCOW, February 8. /TASS/. Russia's Federal Security Service reported nabbing the gunman who attempted to kill a senior Russian Defense Ministry official and a suspected male accomplice.
On February 6, an attempt on the life of Lieutenant-General Vladimir Alekseyev was carried out in northwestern Moscow. The senior Russian Defense Ministry official was hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
TASS has collected key details about the assassination attempt.
Detainees
- The two suspected accomplices are Russian citizens Viktor Vasin, born in 1959, and Zinaida Serebritskaya, born in 1971, who has fled to Ukraine, the FSB told TASS.
- With assistance from UAE partners in Dubai, the suspected attacker, Lyubomir Korba, born in 1960, was detained and extradited to Russia. A native of Ukraine’s Ternopol Region, Korba has dual Ukrainian-Russian citizenship, the case revealed.
- Work to find and identify the organizers of the assassination attempt on Alekseyev’s life is ongoing.
Details
- A Makarov pistol with a silencer and three bullets were found at the scene of the attack, Investigative Committee Spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko told TASS.
- Korba arrived in Moscow in December on instructions from Ukrainian special services to carry out the attack.
Charges
- A court in Moscow sent Korba, who was charged with attempting to kill a law enforcement officer and illegally storing weapons, into custody, a court spokesman told TASS.