By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A top Russian military intelligence official was shot in his Moscow apartment building and rushed to hospital on Friday, investigators said, the latest in a series of assassination attempts Russia has blamed on Ukraine.

UKRAINE has been accused by Russia of training an assassin in Kyiv and promising him £22,000 to kill one of Vladimir Putin’s top spy chiefs. Lyubomir Korba, 65, has allegedly

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of trying to "disrupt the negotiation process" searching for an end to the war.

A Russian general who was shot several times in Moscow on Friday has regained consciousness after successfully undergoing surgery, according to reports in Russian media.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the United States is urging Moscow and Kyiv to find a solution by June.

Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, the deputy head of the GRU, Russia’s main foreign military intelligence agency, was targeted at his home in Moscow, officials said.

Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev provided intelligence to the Kremlin for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and had been penalized by the U.S. twice, including for meddling in elections.

Four years into the war, the character of Russia’s occupation is changing. Last month marked the formal end of a three-year “transition period” intended to absorb the occupied territories into Russia. Moscow still appears uneasy about the loyalty of the most recently annexed regions. There, surveillance by the FSB is omnipresent.

MOSCOW, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Russia remains open for cooperation with the United States but is not hopeful about economic ties despite Washington's ongoing efforts to end the Ukraine war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published on Monday.