Ukraine says it foiled Russian plot to kill Zelensky – two Ukrainian officials arrested

The country’s authorities began arresting two Ukrainian officials who, as Kiev claims, were planning to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) said it arrested two agents within the country’s National Guard who were planning to kidnap and assassinate President Zelensky and other senior government officials.

The Ukrainian Security Service said on Telegram: “Investigators of the Ukrainian Security and Counterintelligence Service foiled plans by the Russian Security Service (FSB) to kill the President of Ukraine and other representatives of the military and political leadership,” indicating that the killing of Zelensky would be a “terrorist act.” A “gift” to Vladimir Putin before his inauguration.

He also claimed that a secret agent had leaked the coordinates of a safe house before the planned missile attack, and that Russia planned to use another missile to destroy the trajectories of the drone that would be used against Zelensky.

“The enemy has developed active plans to neutralize President Volodymyr Zelensky. One of the tasks of the intelligence network of the Federal Security Service (FSB) was to search for executioners among the military personnel close to the president’s protection, who could take him hostage and later kill him.

He added: “In addition to Volodymyr Zelensky, the enemy planned to kill the head of the Ukrainian Security Service, Vasyl Malyuk, and the head of the Intelligence Service of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Kirill Budanov, in addition to other high-ranking officials.” State Security said.