The head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov announced during a Tuesday briefing that Ukrainian forces had foiled an assassination plot against the president. Volodymyr Zelenskyaccording to Telegram mail from the Ukrainian authorities.
why does it matter: Zelensky said since the beginning Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine He would be a prime target for assassination. Last Thursday, he warned that Russian “subversive groups” entered Kyiv and were there Looking for him and his family.
The Big Picture: According to a telegram, Danilov said that a unit of the elite Chechen special forces, known as Kadyrov’s followersAnd the He was behind the plot and was later “eliminated”.
- “We are well aware of the special operation that was to be carried out by Kadyrov’s followers directly in order to eliminate our president,” Danilov said in the post.
- He added that the Ukrainian authorities had received reports of the plot by members of the Russian Federal Security Service who did not support the war.
- Danilov explained that Kadyrov’s group was divided into two groups, one of which was destroyed in Gostomel and the other “under fire”.
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