Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Chairman Oleksiy Danilov announced at a briefing on Tuesday that Ukrainian troops had blocked plans to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky. Telegram posting from Ukrainian authorities..
Important reason: Zelensky has been saying since the beginning Russia’s provocative invasion of Ukraine He would be the primary target of the assassination. Last Thursday he entered Kyiv with a Russian “jamming group” Hunting for him and his family..
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Big picture: According to the telegram, Danilov was said by a unit of the Elite Chechen Special Forces known as Kadyrovtsy., Behind the plot, it was subsequently “excluded.”
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“We are familiar with the special operations directly carried out by Kadyrovtsy to eliminate the president,” Danilov said, according to the post.
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Ukrainian officials have been overturned on the plot by members of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia, who did not support the war, he added.
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Danilov elaborated that the Kadyrovite group was split into two, one destroyed by Gostomel and the other destroyed “by fire”.
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