Coup d’état Ukraine, Zelensky fears a coup from Russia but Putin denies: “We have nothing to do with it”
A coup could break out in Ukraine in early December. Not even in a week. The Ukrainian president revealed it at a press conference Volodymyr Zelensky who explained that he had received intelligence information on ongoing preparations.
“There are great challenges in the heart of our country,” he said Zelensky, “Which have been recorded by the intelligence agencies of other countries. Specifically, I have received information that a coup will take place in our country on December 1st. It is interesting and also important information. December 1st or 2nd “.
According to reports from the agencies UNIAN, the plan would also involve the businessman Rinat Akhmetov, the Ukrainian tycoon, current president of the System Capital Management and the football club Shakhtar Donetsk. “We have information from agents and also audio information about a discussion, so to speak, between Ukrainian representatives with Russian representatives about the participation of Rinat Akhmetov to a coup in Ukraine and an allotment of one billion dollars. “
But, he reports Interfax, according to Zelensky, Akhmetov “was framed”. “I believe this is an operation aimed at luring him into a war against the Ukrainian state, which would be a big mistake, as you cannot fight your own people and the president elected by the people of Ukraine,” concluded the president.
As the National newspaper, this is the latest sign of a tense situation in the country. On the one hand there is the Covid which continues to claim victims, 608 people have died in the last 24 hours, a number that assumes even more importance if we consider that the Pase has “only” 44 million inhabitants, and putting pressure on the health system, which takes care of over 3 thousand more patients every day.
On the other hand, however, the relationship with the neighbor Russia and the growing concern at the border about the state’s military activity Putin. The president spoke on this last question Zelensky arguing that Ukraine is ready to face an escalation in its conflict with Moscow. “There is a threat today that there will be war tomorrow,” he said Zelensky at the press conference, “we are fully prepared for an escalation”.
After the statements of the Ukrainian president, the response of the Kremlin was not long in coming. “Russia never intended to participate in what Volodymyr Zelensky claims is a coup in Ukraine.” This was stated by the spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov, quoted by Tax.
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