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An FSB network was uncovered in Ukraine. His goal was apparently to kill Volodymyr Zelensky. It wasn’t the first attempt.
Kiev – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has issued several presidential decrees that provide for a change in the leadership of the Ukrainian government and military. According to a decision published on Thursday (May 9), this includes the head of the Ukrainian State Security Administration (UDO), Serhiy Rud.
Rud’s dismissal comes shortly after the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claimed to have uncovered a network of Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents, according to the Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Independent reported. The network was apparently planning an assassination attempt on President Zelensky and other high-ranking officials in Ukraine. Two senior UDO officials accused of passing classified information to Russia have been arrested, according to the report.
$50,000 for assassination attempt on Zelensky: Russia ensnared bodyguard
The aim of Russia’s FSB network was to find perpetrators among military officers in Zelensky’s security apparatus or the bodyguard “who could take the head of state hostage and then kill him.” Vasily Malyuk, the head of the SBU, and Kyryl Budanov, the head of army intelligence, were also named as possible targets. That’s what she reports dpa. According to the plan, Budanov was to be eliminated before Orthodox Easter on May 5th. The recruited agents should provide the exact location details of the house where Budanov is staying. The house was then supposed to be destroyed using a rocket.
What does the Upravlinnia derzhavnoi okhorony Ukrainy (UDO) do?
The main tasks of the UDO include ensuring the security of the Ukrainian President and high-ranking state officials, as well as protecting administrative buildings and objects of the state authorities of Ukraine.
To support the allegations, the SBU released a recording of an allegedly wiretapped phone call in which an officer with the rank of colonel was allegedly offered $50,000 (46,300 euros) to take part in the assassination attempt.
The Ukrainian president is repeatedly threatened – he has survived at least five assassination attempts
Just weeks earlier, SBU officials and Polish law enforcement agencies were in the process of arresting a Polish citizen who was said to have offered Russia to assassinate the Ukrainian president.
At the end of November, Zelensky said in an interview with the British newspaper The Sun, he has survived at least five assassination attempts since the start of the Ukraine war. In August last year, Ukrainian intelligence reported the arrest of a woman accused of helping Vladimir Putin’s Russia plan an assassination attempt on Zelensky. (tpn)
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