Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has survived an assassination attempt at a Polish airport.
Ukraine’s head of the Security Service Vasyl Malyuk revealed that survived that assassination attempt by a Russian “sleeper agent.”
Malyuk said that a retired military officer who was recruited by Moscow “decades ago” who was activated recently.
The Russian agent planned to assassinate President Zelensky at Rzeszów Airport using a FPV drone or a “sniper complex.”
The head of Ukraine’s Security Service said the assassination attempt was foiled in a joint operation between Kyiv and authorities in Poland.
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Malyuk said, “All of this was implemented, we detained him. Polish colleagues worked professionally, it was our joint work with them.”
He added, “I would like to take this opportunity to thank the ABW of Poland (Internal Security Agency).
“This is the analogue of the SBU in Poland, the so-called internal special service. We implemented an important criminal proceeding together with them. A military pensioner, a Pole, who was recruited decades ago, firmly believed in the Soviet idea and harboured his intention through the years.”
RBC-Ukraine reported that the assassination attempt was foiled by Ukrainian SBU officers and Polish officers from the Agency for Homeland Security.
President Zelensky survived another assassination attempt which was organised by UDO (Ukraine’s Administration of State Guard) and FSB colonels.
Malyuk said the they detained a UDO colonel saying, “A detained colonel of the UDO, head of the State Protection Management Department.
“These are those who are supposed to protect top officials in this country, and this is their function.
At the same time, they were preparing an assassination attempt on our President, Volodymyr Zelensky.
He added, “Another colonel was detained with him. They worked for the FSB of the Russian Federation, namely for the 5th Service.
“At that time, it was headed by Lieutenant General Beseda.
“By the way, after this failure, Putin removed him, and he remained an advisor in the FSB system.
“From our side, this was a very difficult job. We have been working on it for almost two years – essentially, since the beginning of the war.
“We carried out a powerful intelligence and technical penetration into this group.
“In addition to the assassination attempt on the President, they collected information, transmitted it, including preparing an assassination attempt on my colleague Kyrylo Oleksiyovych Budanov and on me personally.”
In February President Zelensky revealed during an interview with the Guardian shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 Moscow tried to assassinate him which resulted with “some killed” inside the Presidential office.
President Zelensky did not reveal if those who were killed were also Russians, Ukrainians or even both. He said that the assassination attempts happened as Moscow was pressuring the leadership in Kyiv to accept unacceptable peace conditions.
In March 2022 there was at least three assassination attempts on President Zelensky’s life and before the battle of Kyiv started Russian forces were pushing on hard towards the capital, but they were defeated.
The assassination attempts included Chechen soldiers who were shot and killed after Ukrainian officials claimed they were tipped off by members of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the Kyiv Independent reports.
“There were people who wanted to kill (me), there were gunshots, and more. Some people were killed here, inside the Presidential Office, others were defending us,” Zelensky revealed during the interview with the Guardian.
