An alleged informant for Russia has been detained in connection to a plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
The detained woman has not been named publicly but is from the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv, according to a statement from the SBU. The SBU said she had been “gathering intelligence” about Zelensky’s planned visit to Mykolaiv at the end of July, in order to plan a Russian airstrike to kill the president. However, SBU agents had obtained information about the “subversive activities of the suspect” and adopted additional security measures, foiling the plot.
He responded with the famous line: “I need ammo, not a ride.” Later Zelensky walked outside the compound to film a defiant video message on his phone as Ukrainian troops battled Russians in nearby streets. Several more attempts Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said in March last year that Zelensky had survived more than a dozen assassination attempts. “Foreign sources talk of two or three attempts. I believe that there have been more than a dozen such attempts.
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