Volodymyr Zelenskyy has apparently survived attempts by Russia to kill him several times. Recently, the Ukrainian counterintelligence stopped a possible assassination: A group of Russian saboteurs, led by a secret service agent, was arrested in the city of Uzhgorod in the border triangle between Ukraine, Slovakia and Hungary, the Unian agency reported on Tuesday night . In addition to acts of sabotage, the order of the approximately 25 men also included an attack on Selenskyj. According to the Ukrainian account, Russian espionage squads have tried several times since the beginning of the war to penetrate Kyiv and eliminate the president.
The British daily newspaper “The Times” already reported at the beginning of March, Selenskyj survived three assassination attempts by Russia within a few days. Two different groups were tasked with killing Zelensky, mercenaries from the Kremlin-backed Wagner group and Chechen special forces. According to the report, angry opponents of the war in the Russian domestic secret service FSB are said to have betrayed the plans and thus played a part in thwarting the attacks.