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Attacker and his accomplice in assassination attempt on Russian general nabbed — FSB
According to the FSB, Dubai extradited the attacker, Lyubomir Korba, born in 1960, who targeted Lieutenant-General Vladimir Alekseyev, to Russia.
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.
A suspected female accomplice of the gunman has fled to Ukraine, the FSB told TASS. According to the FSB, Dubai extradited the attacker, Lyubomir Korba, born in 1960, who targeted Lieutenant-General Vladimir Alekseyev, to Russia.
A Russian national, Korba, was detained in Dubai and extradited to Russia with assistance from UAE partners, the FSB continued. He is the man who carried out the attack, the FSB said.
A search for the organizers of the attack is ongoing.
The assassination attempt occurred in a residential building on Volokolamskoye Highway in northwest Moscow on February 6. The attacker fired several shots at a man in a residential building there and fled the scene. The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into the attempt on the life of a senior Russian general.
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Gunman who attempted to kill Russian general acted on Kiev’s instructions — investigators
According to Investigative Committee Spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko, the gunman flew from Russia to the UAE hours after the attempt on the life of Lieutenant-General Vladimir Alekseyev
MOSCOW, February 8. /TASS/. Lyubomir Korba, a native of Ukraine’s Ternopol Region, who attempted to kill a senior Russian general earlier this week acted on instructions from Ukrainian special services as he arrived in Moscow in December to carry out the attack, Investigative Committee Spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.
"It was determined that Korba arrived in Moscow in late December on instructions from Ukrainian special services to carry out the terror attack," she said.
According to Petrenko, the gunman flew from Russia to the UAE hours after the attempt on the life of Lieutenant-General Vladimir Alekseyev. He was detained in Dubai and extradited to Russia.
