"Exciting intelligence details" about 3 attempts to assassinate Zelensky in Kyiv during the war!
The British newspaper, The Times, reported today, Friday, that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky survived 3 assassination attempts during the first week of the raging war.
The newspaper added that the Kremlin sent a group of "Wagner" mercenaries and Chechen special forces to Ukraine in order to kill Zelensky.
But those attempts were thwarted by anti-war elements within the Russian Federal Security Service.
According to the newspaper, officials within the agency alerted Ukrainian officials about the plans for the assassination attempts.
The Ukrainian Defense Minister confirmed the existence of three attempts to assassinate his boss.
He told the local press that he had received information from "double agents" who did not want to participate in this bloody war.
One of the groups said to have tried to kill Wagner, 44-year-old Zelensky, includes 400 people.
And the group members infiltrated into Kyiv with a list of 24 people wanted to be eliminated.
If the attempt succeeds, Russian President Vladimir Putin can deny any involvement.
A source told the newspaper that the Russians want to carry out the operation to cut off the head of state in an undeniable manner, considering that if the operation had succeeded, it would have had a significant impact on the course of the war.
The "Times" reported that the "mercenary army" led by the oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of Putin, and nicknamed "the president's cook", was flown five weeks ago after receiving a lucrative sum.
The elements of "Wagner" were waiting for the green light from the Kremlin to carry out the operation, which includes, in addition to the assassination of Zelensky, the killing of the Ukrainian Prime Minister, members of the Council of Ministers, the mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko and his brother Vladimir.
The plan was sabotaged after information in this regard reached the Ukrainian government, last Saturday morning, and immediately announced a strict curfew in Kyiv for a period of 36 hours, and ordered everyone to stay at home, so that the soldiers could confront the "Russian saboteurs."
A source familiar with Wagner's activities stated that about 2000-4000 mercenaries of this group had already arrived in Ukraine last January, in order to carry out various tasks.
It is believed, according to "Sky News Arabia", that one of their tasks was to track President Zelensky and his colleagues via smartphones to know their movements.
A Ukrainian military official said that a Chechen assassination team that tried to kill the president on March 1 had been eliminated.
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