Published: February 9, 2026 12:22 pm
Author: RT
The alleged shooter has told investigators he was already on Ukraine’s payroll when he was ordered to kill Vladimir Alekseyev
The main suspect in the attempted assassination of Russian General Vladimir Alekseyev has confessed to investigators that he acted on orders from Ukraine, according to an interview video released Monday.
Alekseyev, the first deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency GUR, was shot on Friday in a communal hall of his residence in Moscow. The prime suspect, Lyubomir 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 crime.
In footage published by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the 65-year-old Ukrainian-born Russian citizen said he was already on Kiev’s payroll and was promised $30,000 for killing the general.
Korba stated he was recruited by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) last August and sent to Moscow to surveil several targets, receiving $2,000 monthly from Ukraine. He said the order to prepare a hit on Alekseyev came in December.
“After the assassination attempt, I was instructed to go to the airport and take a flight to Dubai. In Dubai there was a ticket to Romania. From Romania I was supposed to be taken to Kiev. My group of handlers led by a general was supposed to meet me in Kiev,” he said.
The FSB alleges Polish special services assisted the SBU by involving Korba’s son, a Polish citizen. Korba’s acquaintance Viktor Vasin, who helped him rent an apartment, was arrested in Russia and confessed to knowingly aiding the Ukrainian plot, per another FSB video.
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A third suspect, Zinaida Serebritskaya (née Antonyuk), also born in Soviet Ukraine, has fled Russia. She reportedly traveled to Türkiye on the eve of the shooting and is now in Ukraine.
