A top Russian military official has been taken to a hospital after being shot and wounded in Moscow.

According to reports from state media, Ukrainian-born Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was shot several times on the stairwell of his apartment on Feb. 6 by an unknown shooter in the northwest area of the city and is in critical condition.

Oleg Tsaryov, a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian figure close to Alekseyev, said that the general underwent surgery and remained in a coma.

No party claimed responsibility for shooting Alekseyev, though suspicion in Moscow fell on Kyiv.

Ukrainian intelligence agencies targeted multiple Russian military officers and Russian-installed officials since the beginning of the war, blaming them for involvement in war crimes.

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said that the shooting was a “terrorist attack,” claiming without evidence that it was intended to disrupt talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States to end the war.

“This terrorist attack once again confirmed the Zelensky regime’s focus on constant provocations, aimed in turn at derailing the negotiation process,” Lavrov stated in Moscow.

Alekseyev is a deputy director of Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, a unit in the defense ministry known for organizing covert operations abroad, such as assassinations, sabotage and espionage.

He was one of the top officers offering Russian President Vladimir Putin intelligence for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The general has also been widely considered a major figure overseeing Russia’s private military companies.

He was even one of the senior officials tasked with negotiating with Yevgeny Prigozhin during the Wagner Group’s brief mutiny in the summer of 2023.

Following Prigozhin’s revolt, Alekseyev was widely thought to have fallen out of favor in Moscow and had allegedly been briefly detained due to his connections to Wagner, yet he eventually retained his post.