Russia has pointed the finger at Britain after one of Vladimir Putin ’s most senior military spy chiefs was gunned down. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, 64, deputy head of Russia ’s GRU military intelligence agency, was shot at a residential building in Moscow on February 6. He was left seriously injured and taken to hospital, but is expected to survive. Russia’s counterintelligence chief today claimed there was a "British trace" behind the shooting, alleging it was carried out by