The assassination of Vice-Chairman GRU. A network of contractors or a lone wolf from a service mandate?

Friday, February 6, 2026. Moscow has become the site of 1 of the loudest attempts to assassinate a high-ranking Russian service typical since the start of the full-scale war with Ukraine. According to Reuters, Lieutenant-General Vladimir Alexeyev, the first deputy chief of Russian military intelligence GRU, was shot in a residential building on the Volokołajska road in the northwestern part of the city. According to Reuters, the attacker fired 3 shots from a Makarov pistol equipped with a silencer, and 64-year-old Alexeyev went to infirmary and underwent urgent surgery, and his condition was described as severe in the first hours.