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Video. Top Russian GRU general and cyber ops chief shot in Moscow attack

Updated: 06/02/2026 - 13:01 GMT+1

Vladimir Alekseyev has been under the EU sanctions for orchestrating the novichok poisoning attack in Salisbury in 2018 that targeted Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

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