Britain was today blamed over a Moscow assassination bid against one of Vladimir Putin’s most senior military spy chiefs.
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, 64, the deputy head ofRussia’s GRU military intelligence agency, was shot in a residential building on 6 February.
He was seriously wounded and rushed to hospital but is expected to survive.
Today Russia’s counterintelligence chief Alexander Bortnikov claimed there was a “British trace” to the shooting which, he alleged, was carried out by Ukrainian special services.
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“We clearly understand that the organisers are the Ukrainian special services,” said Bortnikov, 74, veteran director of the Federal Security Service [FSB].
“And behind them stand third countries, which we have spoken about before — that the Ukrainian special services operate under the supervision, or with the supervision, of Western intelligence services.
“We see a British trace above all here. Therefore, the investigation is continuing.”
Bortnikov said the FSB will publish new information about the investigation if it becomes available.
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
