Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky foiled, Ukraine intelligence agents say
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Ukrainian intelligence agents say they have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate Volodymyr Zelensky.
Ukraine’s SBU State Security Service said it had caught Russian agents within the Ukrainian state guard service plotting the kidnap and assassination of the president and other senior governmental officials.
“Counterintelligence and SBU investigators thwarted the FSB’s (Russia’s security service) plans to eliminate the president of Ukraine and other representatives of the top military and political leadership”, SBU said on Telegram.
They claimed a secret agent had passed on coordinates of a safe house ahead of a planned rocket attack. The force added Russia had planned to destroy all traces of the drone used to target the president with another missile.
They wrote: “The enemy was actively developing plans to eliminate President Volodymyr Zelensky. One of the tasks of the FSB intelligence network was to search for executors among the military close to the protection of the President, who could take the Head of State hostage and later kill him.
“In addition to Volodymyr Zelensky, the enemy planned to eliminate the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Malyuk, the head of the State Administration of Ukraine Kyryll Budanov and other high-ranking officials.”
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