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Ukraine’s security services (SBU) have foiled another assassination attempt on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The SBU said they had arrested two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine who had reportedly been recruited before Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia’s security services, the FSB, to kill Mr Zelensky. The State Guard is usually charged with protectecting the country’s top officials.
The suspects were arrested on suspicion of enacting a plan drawn up by the FSB, according to a statement by the SBU.
Head of the SBU Vasyl Malyuk said the assassination was supposed to be a “gift” from the FSB to Vladimir Putin ahead of his inauguration on Tuesday following a sham election.
But it is not the first time that the Kremlin has tried to assassinate Mr Zelensky. It …
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