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Russian authorities say they have detained a suspect in last week’s shooting that wounded a senior military officer, the latest in a series of attacks on personnel and figures linked to the war in Ukraine.
September 8, 2026 at 9:20 AM FILE - A view of Lubyanskaya Square with the historical the Federal Security Service building, left, in Moscow, Russia, on July 12, 2023.
that wounded a senior military officer, the latest in a series of attacks on personnel and figures linked to the The Federal Security Service said a 21-year-old Moldovan national was detained for being allegedly “involved in an assassination attempt on a senior military officer of the Russian Defense Ministry” at the behest of Ukrainian intelligence services. He faced charges of attempted murder and illegal arms trafficking, it said.
The officer was shot at least six times on Sept. 3 in the Probuzhdenie settlement on the outskirts of Engels, a city in the Saratov region, said Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for Russia's Investigative Committee, which is also involved in the case. The region is home to a large air force base that hosts Russia's strategic bombers and has carried out attacks on Ukraine. The victim, who has not been identified by Russian authorities, survived the shooting and remains hospitalized.
The FSB alleged that the suspect was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services in 2025 and arrived in Russia in June. He was detained in the southern Astrakhan region as he was trying to leave the country and return to Moldova, the agency said. There was no immediate comment from either Ukrainian or Moldovan officials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alluded to the attack on the day it happened, saying: “Wherever Russian criminals hide, they will be found, and today there is further confirmation of this fact – confirmation in the Saratov region. ” Last week's attack follows a series of bombings in Russia targeting people involved in the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Moscow has blamed Kyiv for some of the blasts.
In late August, a serviceman was killed and his wife was injured by a car bomb on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Three weeks before that, the director of a factory supplying drones to the Russian militaryand his driver was killed when their car exploded just outside Yekaterinburg, 1,400 kilometers east of Moscow. Earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin directed the FSB and other agencies to tighten security around military and government officials.
Kyiv has claimed responsibility for some attacks inside Russia. Ukraine’s SBU security service said in 2024 that it had organizedKirillov was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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