According to Moscow's intelligence services, a breakthrough has been made in the investigation into the assassination attempt on General Vladimir Alekseyev : a sixty-year-old Russian citizen has been arrested in Dubai and extradited by Emirati authorities, while an accomplice was arrested in the capital and another has fled to Ukraine. The FSB announced the news, stating it also knows who ordered the attack: Kiev's intelligence services. The Ukrainian government, however, continues to deny any responsibility, citing internal Russian espionage.
Lyubomir Korba, born in 1960 in the Ternopil region of Soviet Ukraine, is believed to be the perpetrator of the attempted assassination of the GRU's deputy. He was caught on the stairs of his Moscow apartment by a suspect who shot him three times with a silenced Makarov pistol last Friday, leaving him in critical condition. Television footage from the RU-24 channel showed masked FSB officers escorting a blindfolded man from a small jet to an unspecified location.
According to the Investigative Committee (SK), Lyubomir "had arrived in Moscow at the end of December on behalf of the Ukrainian secret services to commit a terrorist attack."
Investigators added that they had identified two accomplices: a man, Viktor Vasin, arrested in the capital, and a woman, Zinaida Serebritskaya, who apparently managed to escape to Ukraine.
Although no one has claimed responsibility so far, immediately after the attack , Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed the finger at the Ukrainians, accusing them of wanting to sabotage the peace talks, the second round of which has just concluded in Abu Dhabi and a new one that could be held in the coming days in the United States.
Indeed, over the past year, Kiev's intelligence agencies have targeted at least three Russian generals in the Moscow region, accusing them of involvement in war crimes, albeit operations involving explosives. In the case of General Alekseyev, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha denied any Ukrainian responsibility, suggesting instead that it was due to "internal struggles" within the Russian security apparatus. In any case, the status of the GRU deputy head was no longer very clear. Once a leading figure in the supervision of private military companies, he had been considered disgraced after Yevgeny Prigozhin's attempted uprising in the summer of 2023 and was rumored to have been briefly imprisoned precisely because of his ties to the Wagner Group. Although, in the end, he retained his post.
(Unioneonline)