Russian authorities have detained a suspect in a recent shooting that injured a senior military officer, marking the latest in a series of attacks targeting personnel and figures associated with Russia's war in Ukraine. According to the Federal Security Service (FSB), a 21-year-old Moldovan national was arrested for allegedly participating in an assassination attempt against a high-ranking Russian Defense Ministry officer. The suspect is charged with attempted murder and illegal arms trafficking. The attack occurred on September 3 in the Probuzhdenie settlement, near Engels in the Saratov region, a location known for housing a major Russian air force base that has conducted airstrikes in Ukraine. The officer, whose identity has not been disclosed, survived the attack and is currently hospitalized. The FSB claims the suspect was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services in 2025 and entered Russia in June. He was caught in the Astrakhan region as he attempted to flee the country and return to Moldova. According to Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, the suspect was allegedly promised $70,000 to carry out the attack. Neither Ukrainian nor Moldovan officials have commented on the allegations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referenced the attack shortly after it occurred, stating that Russian criminals would be found wherever they hid, and that the incident in Saratov was further proof of this. The shooting follows a string of bombings in Russia targeting individuals linked to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Russian authorities have attributed some of these attacks to Ukrainian forces. In late August, a military serviceman and his wife were injured in a car bomb attack on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Earlier, in mid-August, a factory director who supplied drones to the Russian military was severely injured, and his driver was killed in a car explosion near Yekaterinburg. In those cases, no official attribution was immediately provided. In response to the rising threat, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the FSB and other agencies to enhance security measures for military and government officials earlier this year. Ukraine has claimed responsibility for some attacks within Russia. In 2024, Ukraine’s SBU security service admitted to orchestrating the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, a senior Russian military officer, who was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his Moscow residence. Kirillov had been charged with criminal offenses by the SBU the day before his death.