2024-05-10 12:01:28
Ukrainian intelligence services recently arrested two colonels from the “National Protection Service” (UDO) charged with protecting the president on suspicion of involvement in an assassination plot once morest President Zelensky and other top officials. According to a brief official statement, Zelensky fired the UDO director.
CNN and BBC reported that a decree published on the website of the Ukrainian Presidential Palace on the 9th stated that UDO General Director Serhii Rud was removed from office, but the reason was not indicated and that a replacement had not yet been appointed.
The UDO’s mission is to ensure the security of the Ukrainian president and senior state officials, as well as the protection of administrative buildings. However, following it was reported earlier this week that two security officials had been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office announced on the 7th that two UDO colonels had been accused of carrying out “subversive activities once morest Ukraine”. “Activities in exchange for financial rewards”, both were accused of treason, and one of them was also accused of preparing a terrorist attack.
According to the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), it “discovered” a plot to assassinate Zelensky and other senior officials, including SBU head Vasyl Maliuk and the husband of the head of the General Service of Ukraine (SBU). intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense, Budano. Ukrainian prosecutors say one of the suspects received two drones and ammunition from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and planned to transfer them to another accomplice.
According to Ukraine’s state media outlet Ukrinform, Rudd had led the presidential guard since 2019. Although there is no indication that he is in any way linked to the assassination accusations, one of the arrested colonels, Andriy Huk, is believed to be a personal friend of Rudd. Ukrainian media pointed out that Rude and Hook had attended Border Force Officer School together many years ago.
Ukrainian President Zelensky and President of the European Parliament Metsola (no photo) held a joint press conference in kyiv on the 9th. Or Xin…
The BBC and the Ukrainian Independent reported that President Zelensky often changed key figures in Ukraine’s security forces. On the 9th, he also issued a decree to transfer the special forces commander, Colonel Serhiy Lupanchuk, from his current position following only a few months in office. the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, General Zaluzny, was “removed from military service for health reasons” the day before, retaining “the right to wear military uniform” and appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom .
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