Suspect in taking pictures of senior Russian officer detained, Russia says

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Russia's Federal Safety Service mentioned Sunday that the person suspected of taking pictures a deputy chief of Russia's army intelligence company in Moscow was detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia.

Lt.-Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was hospitalized after being shot a number of occasions on Friday by an assailant at an condominium constructing in northwestern Moscow, Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko mentioned. The assault adopted a sequence of assassinations of senior army officers that Russia has blamed on Ukraine.

The Federal Safety Service (FSB) mentioned a Russian citizen, Lyubomir Korba, was detained in Dubai on suspicion of finishing up the taking pictures. In an announcement on its web site, FSB mentioned it had additionally recognized two "accomplices," certainly one of whom was detained in Moscow and one other who "left for Ukraine."

Requested concerning the taking pictures, Russian Overseas Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov mentioned Friday it might be as much as regulation enforcement companies to pursue the investigation however described it as an obvious "terrorist act" by Ukraine supposed to derail peace talks.

There was no quick response from Kyiv to a request for touch upon the Russian allegations.

Taking pictures follows peace talks in Abu Dhabi The taking pictures got here a day after Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators wrapped up two days of talks in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, geared toward ending the almost four-year-old battle in Ukraine. The Russian delegation was led by Alekseyev's boss, army intelligence chief Admiral Igor Kostyukov.

Alekseyev, 64, has served as the primary deputy head of Russia's army intelligence company, often known as the GRU, since 2011.

He was adorned with the Hero of Russia medal for his function in Moscow's army marketing campaign in Syria. In June 2023, he was proven on state TV talking to mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, when his Wagner Group seized the army headquarters within the southern metropolis of Rostov-on-Don throughout his short-lived mutiny.

Since Moscow despatched troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Russian authorities have blamed Kyiv for a number of assassinations of army officers and public figures in Russia. Ukraine has claimed accountability for a few of them.

In December, a automotive bomb killed Lt.-Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Coaching Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces' Basic Employees.

In April, one other senior Russian army officer, Lt.-Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the principle operational division within the Basic Employees, was killed by a bomb positioned in his automotive parked close to his condominium constructing simply exterior Moscow. A Russian man who beforehand lived in Ukraine pleaded responsible to finishing up the assault and mentioned he had been paid by Ukraine's safety providers.

Days after Moskalik's killing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned he obtained a report from the top of Ukraine's overseas intelligence company on the "liquidation" of prime Russian army figures, including that "justice inevitably comes" — though he did not point out Moskalik's title.

In December 2024, Lt.-Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the army's nuclear, organic and chemical safety forces, was killed by a bomb hidden on an electrical scooter exterior his condominium constructing. Kirillov's assistant additionally died. Ukraine's safety service claimed accountability for the assault.

Deadly Russian airstrike hits Ukraine in a single day A Russian airstrike on a residential space in jap Ukraine killed one individual and wounded two, officers mentioned Sunday, after Zelenskyy mentioned the U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to achieve a peace deal.

The assault on town of Kramatorsk, in Ukraine's Donetsk area, triggered a fireplace in a nine-storey condominium block, based on Ukraine's State Emergency Service.

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Russia has hammered Ukraine's energy grid, particularly in winter, all through the struggle. It goals to weaken the Ukrainian will to withstand in a technique that Kyiv officers name "weaponizing winter."

Zelenskyy informed reporters on Friday that the U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to achieve a deal to finish the struggle. If the June deadline will not be met, the Trump administration will probably put stress on each side, he mentioned.

"The People are proposing the events finish the struggle by the start of this summer time and can in all probability put stress on the events exactly based on this schedule," the Ukrainian president mentioned. "And so they say that they need to do the whole lot by June. And they'll do the whole lot to finish the struggle. And so they need a clear schedule of all occasions."