According to the “Times”, Volodymyr Zelensky has escaped three assassination attempts in the past week.
He called himself the “number one target” of the “enemy”. According to the “Times”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky escaped three assassination attempts in one week since the start of the Russian invasion. According to the English daily, it was infiltrated elements of the FSB, the Russian intelligence services, who provided the information to thwart the plans coming from two fronts: the Wagner mercenary force, on the one hand, and Chechen soldiers. sent by Ramzan Kadyrov on the other. “I can say that we have received information from the FSB, which does not want to participate in this bloody war. And thanks to that, Kadyrov’s elite group was destroyed, the one who came here to eliminate our president,” Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, told Ukrainian television. The mercenaries of the Wagner group were eliminated on the outskirts of Kiev, with a “worrying” precision of their position in the eyes of the leaders of this private group, deployed in 14 foreign countries, particularly in Africa.
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According to previous information, around 400 mercenaries have been in Kiev for several weeks with a mission: to kill Volodymyr Zelensky and key elements of his government to allow the establishment of a pro-Russian president. The name of Viktor Yanukovych, previous head of state, comes up regularly: according to the Ukrainian daily “Pravda”, he would be in Minsk, Belarus, ready to succeed Volodymyr Zelensky, fear the intelligence services. “It only takes one to get there and everyone comes home with a bonus”, explained a source to the “Times” to explain the motivation of the mercenaries, privileged to the deployment of Russian soldiers, which would allow the Kremlin to deny any responsibility directly in the event of an attack on Volodymyr Zelensky.
“In terms of impact on Russian sovereignty policy, this would probably be their biggest mission so far. This would have a major impact on the war,” the source added. Wagner’s mercenaries ‘have far more combat experience than the Spetsnaz [les groupes d’intervention russes] and they are crazy enough to do it”, but would wait for the arrival of Russian soldiers in the capital to guarantee their exfiltration, which is slow due to the resistance on the outskirts of the capital.
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“I need ammunition, not a driver”
Since the Russian invasion, the figure of the Ukrainian president has grown. Former comedian elected in 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky has made communication a major weapon in this conflict and has shown himself several times to prove that he is indeed in Kiev, in the capital. But these videos filmed on the phone, at arm’s length, have ceased in recent days, giving way to speeches and interviews with the press organized from closed places, to avoid allowing his exact location. Volodymyr Zelensky, whose family left the capital, refused him any exfiltration offered by Westerners. “I need ammunition, not a driver,” he reportedly replied to the Americans, recalling that “the fight is here.”
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As early as last week, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian expressed his fears for Volodymyr Zelensky’s safety: “President Zelensky’s safety is a central element of what is happening,” he said. , specifying that France was “in a position to help him if necessary”. “This may be the last time you will see me alive,” warned the former comedian on the evening of the invasion last Thursday during a discussion with European leaders, according to Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson .
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