A senior Ukrainian official revealed on Tuesday that the country’s authorities had thwarted an alleged assassination plot against President Vladimir Zelensky.
During a briefing, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Alexei Danilov, revealed that Ukrainian forces had stopped a plan to assassinate Zelensky, according to a Ukrainian Telegram publication.
Danilov said the Kadyrovites – made up of elite Chechen special forces, according to Axios – had conspired to “eliminate our president”.
“We are well aware of the special operation that had to be carried out directly by the cadres to overthrow our president,” Danilov was quoted as saying by Telegram’s Axgram publication.
Danilov said that non-war agents of the Federal Security Service of Russia had informed the authorities about the plot.
He added that the group of cadres behind the assassination plot was divided into two – one was destroyed in Gostomel and the other was “under fire”, according to Axios.
The news of the alleged assassination plot came on the sixth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began last week when the Russian president Vladimir Putin
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Moscow forces attacked a number of cities, but fierce Ukrainian resistance from military and armed, private citizens slowed their efforts.
Russian shelling hit a number of locations in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, on Tuesday as Russian forces approached Kyiv.
In recent days, Zelenski has emerged as a global hero as he remains in his home country, leading defense efforts despite the risks to him.
Zelenski was elected president in 2019. Prior to that, he was an actor and comedian.