MOSCOW, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday that it has detained a third suspect over an attempted assassination of a senior Russian military officer.
The suspect, a Russian citizen, attempted to kill Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, a deputy chief of Russia's military intelligence agency, who was shot several times inside a residential building in northwest Moscow on Friday, the FSB said in a statement.
According to the FSB, he provided vehicles and surveillance equipment to two previously detained suspects, and assisted in collecting information on potential targets.
The FSB said the suspect's testimony helped identify two additional senior officials of Russia's Ministry of Defense who had allegedly been under surveillance in the interests of Ukrainian intelligence services. ■