Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Two detained Russian nationals have confessed to their roles in the failed assassination attempt of a senior military general, Russia's Federal Security Service said Monday, as Moscow sought to bolster its claim that Ukraine was behind the attack.
Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was seriously wounded Friday when he was shot by an assailant in Moscow. Authorities said Alekseyev was inside a residential building on Moscow's Volokolamskoye Highway when the attack occurred.
Lyubomyr Korba, born in 1960 in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, was arrested over the weekend in Dubai and extradited to Russia. Viktor Vasin, born in 1959, was arrested by Russian authorities in Moscow.
Russia's intelligence agency FSB said in a statement Monday that both men "confessed their guilt" and described the attempt on Alekseyev's life.
According to the intelligence agents, Korba was the alleged shooter and Vasin an alleged accomplice.
