As fighting continues in the east, Ukrainian intelligence agencies (Sbu) have reported foiling a Russian plan to kill Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov and the head of the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence, Kyrill Budanov.
Kyiv’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov (Twitter).
As fighting continues in the eastern areas, the war between Russia and Ukraine it also continues off the battlefield and into the Intelligence rooms.
THE Ukrainian secret services (Sbu) actually foiled a Russian plan to kill the defense minister Oleksiy Reznikov and the chief of the Chief Military Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov. A prominent Kiev activist is said to have been involved in a third murder.
Who are the men arrested by the SBU?
As reported by the British newspaper The Guardian, SBU agents have arrested men employed by the Moscow secret services who are based in the region Lugansk and another instead in the capital Kyivwho should have fulfilled the assignment and who had been promised compensation from 100-150 thousand dollars per victim.
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The man living in the Luhansk region entered Ukraine from Belarus and was arrested in the city of Kovel, northwestern Ukraine, along with the resident of Kyiv, a statement said.
The SBU has been in the spotlight in recent weeks after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was forced to sack the head of state and the prosecutor general, citing dozens of cases of cooperation with Russia by officials in their agencies.
At what stage is the war in Ukraine
Meanwhile, the fighting in Donbass is getting bloodier, especially in Donetsk. According to the Kiev General Staff, Russian troops are launching waves of attacks that are still ongoing.
“The situation in the region is tense, bombing raids continue on the front line. The Russians are conducting continuous airstrikes, but the Ukrainian military units are repelling the attacks,” the morning report said. The Russian offensive toward Bakhmut and Avdiiv attempts to dislodge the Ukrainian forces with artillery fire. “The enemy is not successful. Donetsk region is holding,” Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told TV. To the southeast, the main Antonovsky Bridge over the Dnieper in the Kherson region was hit again by Ukrainian forces trying to cut Russian supply lines.