A Ukrainian defense official revealed this week that a ‘kill squad’ sent to execute President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been “eliminated” by the nation’s armed forces, according to a Telegram post from Ukrainian authorities.
Oleksiy Danilov, chief of the nation’s National Safety and security and also Defense Council, supposedly stated in a rundown on March 3rd that Ukrainian authorities had actually just recently been made aware of a “special operation” that was to be performed against Zelenskyy by an elite Chechen special operations group, known as the Kadyrovites.
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The Kadyrovites are a highly-skilled paramilitary organization in Chechnya, a semiautonomous republic in Russia, that typically carry out violence at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demand. According to National Review, they are accused of a variety of human rights offenses as well as abuses.
Danilov stated Ukrainian leaders were tipped off concerning the assassination plot by a group of Russian sympathizers with the Kremlin’s Federal Security Service or FSB.
“We are well aware of the special operation that was to take place directly by the Kadyrovites to eliminate our president. And I can say that we have received information from the FSB, who today do not want to take part in this bloody war. And thanks to this, I can say that Kadyrov’s elite group was destroyed directly, which came here to eliminate our president,” Danilov stated, according to a Google translation of the Telegram post.
The Ukrainian leader went on to claim that the Kadyrovite team had actually been separated in two, with one being damaged in Gostomel, near Kyiv, while the various other was “under fire.”
The Washington Post reported that Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov validated on Monday in a Telegram blog post that two of his servicemen had died while 6 others were wounded throughout the Russian intrusion of Ukraine. However, neither the Chechens nor the Kremlin has actually connected the losses to a handicapped assassination effort.
From the launch of the invasion, Zelenskyy has declared that Russian forces assigned him and his family as leading targets in the offensive and that Russian kill teams were actively looking to execute him. Nonetheless, he promised to continue to be in the capital, of Kyiv, and stand along with his people. Even when the United States government reportedly provided the means to rescue Zelenskyy, the president stood by his choice to remain.
“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” an “upbeat” Zelenskyy stated in feedback to the deal, according to a senior U.S. Intel official.
