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Lets get to one of the stories in those headlines.

A top ranking Russian general linked to the Salisbury poisonings back in 2018 has been shot several times and wounded in Moscow.

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Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev was rushed to hospital this morning after an attack in a residential apartment block on the northwestern outskirts of the city.

Alekseyev is part of the GRU's military intelligence unit, so he will have been closely connected to the operations in Ukraine.

And he's not the first high ranking official to be targeted in the capital.

Let's speak to the BBC's Russian correspondent Olga Ischina.

Olga, what do we know about the circumstances around the attack?

Yes, you rightly said General Alekseyev was assassinated this morning around 7am when he was leaving apartment block where he lives and apparently he met someone at the entrance and from what we know he was shot several times and taken into the hospital in critical condition.

What, what, what his state of health is currently, we don't know.

Russia's President Dmitry Biskoff said that Mr.

Putin is getting hourly updates about General's health and that Russia would respond appropriate appropriately.

So is there any speculation in Russia as to who was responsible?

Well, judging by statements by Russian officials and what they say on Russian state tv, they have almost no doubt Ukraine was behind the attack.

Officials in Kyiv have not commented on the case.

But General Alekseyev is actually the fifth general.

The fifth Russian general who has been assassinated in Moscow over the past 16 months.

Probably so since end of 2024 and some of the previous attacks.

Our sources in Ukrainian intelligence hinted that they might have some connection to that.

What will pique interest here in the UK is his links, his historic links to what happened in Salisbury.

So General Alexei is a long serving intelligence officer.

From what we know, he has been at the top levels of Russian military intelligence, GRU at least since 2011.

And yes, as you rightly said, he has been put on sanctions list for his involvement in Salisbury.

He has also planned and executed operations in Syria in during Russia's full scale invasion into Ukraine.

So yeah, he has quite a long track list of things.

Because of course the main operations are still top secret and classified.

We'll continue to monitor that situation.

The general in hospital receiving urgent care.