Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky survived 3 assassination attempts in the last week: Report
Russo-Ukrainian War: The US offers to evacuate Zelensky from Ukraine but he refuses.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has survived three assassination attempts since Invasion of Russia began last week, reports have said. The plots were foiled after Ukrainian officials were warned about them, according to Time.
Reports say that two different assassination groups were sent to kill the President of Ukraine – the Wagner group and the Chechen rebels.
Based on washington articles, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) warned the Ukrainians that a unit of the Kadyrovites – Chechen’s elite special forces – had been sent to kill Zelensky. It quoted Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, as saying that these units were “destroyed”.
He added that Chechen special forces were killed Saturday on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. “And I can say that we have received information from the FSB, who today do not want to participate in this bloody war,” Danilov told The Post.
The Times reported that the intelligence came from anti-war elements within the FSB.
Meanwhile, the Wagner mercenaries were reportedly alarmed by the fact that the Ukrainians had correctly predicted their moves, the Times further reported.
It did not specify the source of the information, but reports that the senior official said it was “strange” how brief Zelensky’s security team was briefed.
The US offered to evacuate Zelensky at the start war in Ukraine, but he refused. Instead, he chose to stay in Kyiv amid Russian bombardment of intimate settlements with his security team and closest aides.
His decision was praised by many countries, including France. President Emmanuel Macron, in his address to the nation, called Zelensky “the face of honor, freedom and courage”.
Zelensky said he was concerned he was the number one target of a Russian invasion but also called on Thursday that talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin were the only way to end the conflict.
“If someone thinks … Ukraine will surrender then he knows nothing about Ukraine and has nothing to do in Ukraine,” Zelensky said in his latest video address in an explicit message to Putin.
