Russian plot to kill Volodymyr Zelensky as ‘gift’ to Vladimir Putin foiled by security services

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Photo: Getty

Tom Watling
© UK Independent

Ukraine’s security service (SBU) has foiled another assassination attempt on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

The SBU said it 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.