Two Ukraine’s State Security Administration colonels detained: Security service reports attempted assassination attempt on Zelenskyy – photos, video

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) claims to have disrupted the plans of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to eliminate Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy and other members of the country’s top military and political leadership.

Source: SSU, Office of the Prosecutor General

Details: Two colonels of the State Security Administration (SSA) were found guilty of treason, aiding and abetting a terrorist attack.

Quote from SSU: „SSU counterintelligence and investigators disrupted the FSB’s plans to eliminate the President of Ukraine and other representatives of the country’s top military and political leadership.

The plans were to be implemented by an agent network, which was exposed in advance by the SSU with the assistance of the leadership of the State Security Administration. The network, whose activities were supervised by the FSB from Moscow, included two colonels of the SSA who were leaking secret information to Russia.

Thus, the enemy was actively developing plans to eliminate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. One of the tasks of the FSB’s intelligence network was to find perpetrators among the military close to the president’s security detail who could take the head of state hostage and then kill him.

In addition to Zelenskyy, the enemy planned to eliminate SSU Head Vasyl Maliuk, Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence Chief Kyrylo Budanov and other high-ranking officials.“

Details: Vasyl Malyuk, the head of SSU, says that a limited number of people knew about this special operation to expose the FSB agents, and he supervised its progress personally. He added that the attack was supposed to be a „gift to Putin for his inauguration“.

In particular, the intelligence service reports that the agents were going to kill DIU Chief Budanov before Easter.

Their plan was as follows: first, the recruited agent was to observe the movements of the protected person and pass on information to the Russian FSB. The coordinates of the house where the official was supposed to be were to be used to launch a missile attack. Then, they were going to attack the people who remained at the site of the attack with a drone. After that, the Russians planned to hit with another missile, including to destroy the traces of the drone.

The agent would be armed by a colonel of the SSA, who would personally bring FPV drones, RPG-7 charges, and MON-90 anti-personnel mines to Kyiv. The SSU recorded both the colonel’s trips to another oblast of Ukraine to get the drones and explosives, and conversations between the potential terrorist and his FSB handler.

Representatives of the Russian Federal Security Service chose the private house in Kyiv Oblast where a Ukrainian high-ranking official was supposed to be staying as the target of the attack.

However, such intentions were timely exposed and documented by the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. This prevented the completion of the crime, and the suspects were detained.

Searches at their residences revealed evidence of criminal activity.

Both suspects were arrested.

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