Ukraine’s civilian counterintelligence (SBU) announced today that it has uncovered a group of Russian Secret Service (FSB) agents who allegedly planned to kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials. The SBU detained five people, including two members of the State Security Bureau, which is in charge of protecting the country’s most important offices.
One of the tasks of the agents was to look for a person among the members of the presidential security who would be willing to take Zelensky hostage and then murder him.
In addition to Zelensky, agents are said to have planned to kill SBU director Vasyl Maljuk and head of military intelligence (HUR) Kyryl Budanov. According to Ukrainian investigators, the suspects passed information to the Russian side and also prepared the means to carry out a terrorist attack. One of them got two drones and ammunition for them. He was said to have given them to his companions to use.
CNN reports on the case of a woman arrested last summer. She was planning a Russian raid, who would kill the president during a visit to Mykolaiv. The SBU said it had caught her “in the act”. faces charges of intelligence gathering.
In April of this year, the authorities accused Polák of aiding another attempt to assassinate Zelensky. According to the prosecutor’s office, the man agreed to provide information to Russian spies about security at Rzeszów airport, from where Zelenskyj flies to foreign destinations. The plot was discovered by the Ukrainian authorities, the man was arrested and charged.
The Russian President arrived at the Grand Kremlin Palace today in a luxurious Russian Aurus limousine, while his honor guard waited for several hours in snow and rain and in temperatures just above zero. the AP agency noted. She added that Putin traditionally used the first few moments of his fifth term to thank the “heroes” of his war in Ukraine and lash out against the West.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said today that the information it has received about the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine is insufficiently substantiated. It also said it had not yet received an official request to investigate the claims, AFP reported. The United States last week accused Russia of using chlorpicrin against Ukrainian troops and of violating the international chemical weapons treaty.
The SBU detained five people, among them two members of the State Security Bureau, which is in charge of protecting the most important offices in the country. One of the tasks of the agents was to look for a person among the members of the presidential security who would be willing to take Zelensky as a hostage and then murder him. In addition to Zelensky, agents are said to have planned to kill SBU director Vasyl Maljuk and head of military intelligence (HUR) Kyryl Budanov. According to Ukrainian investigators, the suspects passed information to the Russian side and also prepared the means to carry out a terrorist attack. One of them got two drones and ammunition for them. He was said to have given them to his companions to use.
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During a visit to the coastal city in March In Odessa, a Russian rocket exploded near the convoy with Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. It landed about 500 meters from the convoy, killing five people.
The information that Moscow was trying to assassinate Zelensky came mainly at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022, when Russian troops were heading for Kiev.
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