Lt Gen Vladimir Alexeyev was shot several times inside his apartment block on Friday morning.
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Lt Gen Vladimir Alexeyev, who is Russia's deputy head of military intelligence, was rushed to hospital in serious condition on Friday morning after the attack in the north-western outskirts of the capital.
Two suspects have reportedly been arrested and will soon be taken in for questioning.
Russian officials have blamed Kyiv for the shooting, but Ukraine's foreign minister denied involvement, according to Reuters.
Doctors said on Saturday it can be "cautiously stated that the threat to [Alexeyev's] life has passed", Russia's state news agency Tass has reported.
The highly decorated general was ambushed on the landing inside his apartment block, where a gunman inflicted three bullet wounds, a source close to the investigation told the Kommersant newspaper.
He was reportedly hit in the chest or abdomen before the attacker and an accomplice fled the scene.
A neighbour in the building on Volokolamsk Highway told Reuters she had been woken by the sound of "several" shots and had then heard another neighbour screaming for help.
Alexeyev was taken to a Moscow hospital with injuries where he reportedly underwent successful surgery.
"Afterwards, Alexeyev was placed in a medically induced coma. He has now regained consciousness. At this point, it can be cautiously stated that the threat to his life has passed," medical sources said, according to Tass.
Investigators on Friday said they had opened a criminal case for attempted murder.
Two suspects will be taken for questioning and a court hearing could take place on Sunday to determine their pretrial detention, Kommersant reported.
Watch: BBC on the scene of Russian general shooting in MoscowAlexeyev, 64, is the latest high-ranking military figure to be targeted near Moscow since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
As number two in the main directorate of Russia's GRU military intellig
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