It comes as Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that the security cabinet had approved 19 new Jewish settlements in the Occupied West Bank.
Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov is the latest in a series of senior Russian military officials to have been targeted for assassination since Putin invaded Ukraine.
Denmark describes his comments as "completely unacceptable" and summons the US ambassador in a new eruption of tensions over the future of the vast Danish island.
A man suspected of killing 15 people during a shooting in Bondi Beach "conducted firearms training" with his father before the attack on a Jewish event, Australian police have said.