00:00a high-profile russian general and military intelligence official has been shot several
00:07times by an unidentified gunman in moscow on friday lieutenant general vladimir aleskayev
00:14was immediately taken to hospital after the attack in a residential building on the northwestern
00:21outskirts of the capital according to the reports the assailant fled the scene aleskayev's condition
00:27is unknown at this time but he is said to have survived the shooting according to russian media
00:32reports alesayev is the first deputy head of the main directorate of the general staff of the russian
00:38armed forces the gru he has been the gru number two since 2011 alesayev has also been accused by
00:47the uk and the eu of orchestrating the novichok chemical weapons attack in salisbury in 2018
00:52that targeted russian double agent sergey skripal and his daughter
00:57you
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