Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to him last March that he would not kill his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, and a Russian commando force entered Kyiv in the early days of the Ukraine war seeking to kill or arrest President Zelensky.

"I knew that Zelensky was under threat," Bennett said in a podcast with Israeli journalist Hanoch Daum. "He was in a bunker whose location they did not know."

The former Israeli prime minister added that he had asked Putin during a meeting between them whether he intended to kill Zelensky, and Bennett added that Putin had pledged at the time not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart.

Bennett said that after meeting with Putin, on the way from the Kremlin to the airport, he called Zelensky and told him that Putin had promised not to kill him.

And he went on to say, "(Zelinsky) asked me, Are you sure? I said: Yes, I am 100% sure that he will not kill you."

Bennett held the position of Prime Minister of Israel between June 13, 2021 and June 30, 2022, and on March 5 of last year, Bennett secretly traveled to Moscow to meet Putin in the Kremlin, days after Russia began its war against Ukraine in 24 last February.

3 attempts

And the British newspaper “The Times” revealed on the fourth of March 2022 that the Ukrainian president had survived at least 3 assassination attempts, explaining that two different groups were sent to Zelensky, namely the Russian “Wagner” mercenaries and the Chechen special forces.

And she added in a report that the attempts of Wagner's mercenaries and Chechen forces were thwarted after information against the war in Ukraine within the "Russian National Security" (FSB).

Wagner suffered heavy losses during the attempts to kill Zelensky, and the Russian private security company was surprised by the accuracy of the information available to the Ukrainian president's security staff regarding their movements to assassinate him.

The Times newspaper published a report on April 30, 2022, stating that Ukrainian President Zelensky and his family were only a few minutes away from being killed or captured by a Russian commando force that entered the capital, Kyiv, immediately after the start of the Russian war on February 24.

Paragliding

Soon, the Ukrainian military told him that Russian commandos had parachuted into Kyiv to kill or capture him and his family.

The Russian forces were minutes away from Zelensky and his family, and the presidential offices were not the safest place, so the army asked them to leave, but the president refused to leave.

As Ukrainian forces fought the Russians on the streets of Kyiv, the Presidential Guard tried to seal off the Zelensky complex with whatever police barricades and planks they could find.