OThe Ukrainian Security Services managed to expose a Russian network that was allegedly preparing the assassination of the Ukrainian president, according to Reuters. This network was made up of two Ukrainian colonels.
This network would be working to guard the Russian State and planned not only the death of Volodymyr Zelensky but also that of other Ukrainian government officials.
“Counterintelligence and SBU investigators [Serviços de Segurança da Ucrânia] interrupted the FSB’s plans to eliminate the President of Ukraine and other representatives of the highest military and political leadership of the State”, this entity wrote on its Telegram channel, this Tuesday.
According to the same source, cited by the Ukrainian news agency Interfax, this network was supervised by the FSB from Moscow and included two colonels from the Ukrainian State Security Department who ‘disclosed’ confidential information from the Russian Federation.
These two Ukrainian soldiers were trying to entice Zelensky’s bodyguards to kidnap him. One of them was caught traveling to different parts of Ukraine to receive explosives and information from his contact in Moscow.
“One of the tasks of the FSB’s secret service network was to search, among the military personnel close to the President’s protection, for those who could take him hostage and, subsequently, assassinate him”, explains the SBU report.
In addition to President Zelensky, the SBU claims that Russia’s targets also included the head of the Security Service, Vasily Maliuk, and the head of the Ministry of Defense’s secret services, Kirilo Budanov, who was supposed to be killed before Orthodox Easter, this year celebrated on March 31st.
“The terrorist attack, which was supposed to be a gift to Putin before the inauguration [hoje efetuada], was in fact a failure of the Russian special services. But we must not forget that the enemy is strong and experienced and cannot be underestimated”, warned the head of the SBU, Vasili Maliuk.
The news comes on the day that Vladimir Putin took office as president of Russia, for his 5th consecutive term.
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