OAN’s Abril Elfi
2:49 PM – Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Ukraine’s state security service has arrested two officials after an alleged Russian plot to kill President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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According to a Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) post on Telegram, investigators shut down an alleged planned assassination by two colonels who served in Ukraine’s government protection unit and were reportedly recruited by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).
“The terrorist attack, which was supposed to be a gift to Putin for the inauguration, was indeed a failure of the Russian special services,” SBU head Vasyl Maliuk said in a statement, according to Reuters.
The two men were reportedly charged with treason.
SBU stated that the colonels were in pursuit of a person in Zelensky’s security who would kidnap and eventually kill the president.
The two men were recruited before the war between the two sides began in February of 2022.
Since the beginning of the war, there have been repeated threats to kill Zelensky. According to the President of Ukraine, there were at least 10 attempts to assassinate him in 2022.
As part of an assassination plot, the Ukrainian Secret Service said in August of last year that it had detained a Ukrainian woman who was acting as a Russian informant.
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