Ukrainian security services said Monday, August 8, that they had foiled an assassination attempt on the defense minister and the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence service and neutralized several of its suspected organizers.
The SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) announced on its Telegram account that it had “arrested Russian secret service assassins who planned the assassinations of Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov and the head of military intelligence Kyrylo Budanov”. He broadcast video of these arrests, in which we see an armed group knocking out and handcuffing two plainclothes men who are heading towards a car.
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The arrest of these two men, one of whom arrived in Ukraine from Russia via Belarus, took place in Kovel, in north-western Ukrainian territory. According to the SBU, those arrested were “preparing for the physical liquidation of these two senior Ukrainian defense officials, as well as a well-known Ukrainian activist,” whose name he does not name. Each of these murders should be rewarded with a sum of between $100,000 and $150,000, the SBU said.
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