Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky Survived 3 Assassination Attempts In Last Week: Report
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Russia-Ukraine war: Zelensky has said he is the number one target of the Russian invasion but on Thursday also called for talks with Putin.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has survived three assassination attempts since the Russian invasion began last week, reports have said. The plots were foiled after Ukrainian officials were alerted about them, according to The Times.
The reports said that two different assassination groups were sent to kill the Ukrainian President - the Wagner group and Chechen rebels.
According to The Washington Post, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) alerted the Ukrainians about a unit of Kadyrovites - elite Chechen special forces - sent to kill Zelensky. It quoted Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, as saying that these units were "destroyed".
He added that the Chechen special forces were killed on Saturday on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital Kyiv. “And I can say that we have received information from the FSB, who today do not want to take part in this bloody war,” Danilov told The Post.
