
Foiled assassination plot against President Zelenskyy, claims Ukraine official
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Kyiv was reportedly alerted by Russia's premier security agency FSB of the attack, according to the Ukrainian official.
Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has survived an assassination attempt after officials found and foiled the alleged plot, officials claimed. Kyiv was reportedly alerted by Russia's premier security agency FSB of the attack, according to Ukrainian authorities.
An elite unit of the paramilitary forces of Chechnya - Kadyrovtsy - was behind the alleged plan, Ukraine's Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said, reported euronews.
The suspected plotters have been killed, Oleksiy Danilov said in a televised address.
According to a post on messaging service Telegram, Danilov said, "We are well aware of the special operation that was to take place directly by the Kadyrovites to eliminate our president." He said the information came from the FSB, the post further read.
"We have received information from the FSB, who today do not want to take part in this bloody war. And thanks to this, I can say that Kadyrov's elite group was destroyed directly, which came here to eliminate our president," the post quoted Danilov as saying.
India Today cannot independently verify the post.
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