Ukraine says it foiled Russian plot to assassinate President Zelenskyy

officials in Ukraine tonight saying they foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Vladimir zilinski and other top Ukrainian military and political figures you see one of the suspects here in new video just released by the security service of Ukraine the two Ukrainian Colonels accused of participating in that plot have been arrested on suspicion of treason which carries a life sentence now the head of the Ukrainian State security service says the plot was for an attack leading up to president Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for fifth term on Tuesday zalinsky said in 2022 there have been at least 10 attempts to assassinate him over the course of the war with Russia Megan Fitzgerald joins me now to talk a little bit more about this so Megan uh what do we know about the details of the plot here and and the two Colonels who’ve been arrested well Erin as you mentioned those two Colonels who are arrested uh were in the very agency that’s supposed to protect top officials uh we also know that they were recruited before the war broke out and that this was a plan that Ukraine says was devised by Russia’s Federal Security Service uh Ukraine says that the original plan was for the assassination to be carried out just before Putin’s inauguration which of course was today uh but look as you mentioned this isn’t the first attempt at the assassination of President zalinsky uh Ukrainian officials say since the war broke out in February of 2022 there have been at least 10 assassination attempts one of the latest ones was uh just last month month with a Polish man who was arrested by authorities uh for this alleged plot said to be backed by Russia as for this latest attempt aarin uh so far Russia has not responded to these accusations and Megan we knew that Vladimir Putin had been reelected to this fifth term uh sort of can you offer some context on this what does this mean uh for for Global Affairs for the war in Ukraine well yeah it likely means that we’re not going to see an end to this war anytime soon we continue to see Russia making these advancements on the front lines in Ukraine as this war rages on into the third year and in fact in Putin’s inauguration speech today he talked a lot about the War uh we heard him talk about a United Russia uh this idea of doing everything in its power to secure its Sovereign and prosperous future uh Putin also spoke directly to the West essentially saying that the efforts to undermine him have failed uh and that Putin is stronger than ever Ain all right Megan Fitzgerald for us in our London Bureau tonight Megan thank you thanks for watching stay updated about breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or follow us on social media

Ukrainian officials said they foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Zelenskyy and other top officials. Two Ukrainian colonels have been detained in connection with the plan.

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41 comments

  2. Who cares, we all know the Biden’s are laundering money through Ukraine with this bogus war. The Democrats are trying to convince us at this massive superpower can’t stop this little tiny country go away.

  5. First, actor Zelesnki staged Bucha, and now this. Zelenski, if your colonels want you to go, it is because they are sick and tired of losing men on the battlefield. They want peace. You are out of options. Start negotiating a peace deal now.

  9. More lies. Putin did not issue an assassination on Zelinsky. Ukranian commanders did. They are tired of their lived ones dying, so they sought to root the weed out. Its such a shame that foreign 'dictator' could be so correct about America. Its leaders choose money, not its country.

  12. The absolute last thing Putin wants is Zelensky dead, we want that more than they do!
    It's amazing NBC could air this, but I guess state-controlled media listens to its masters.

  15. Americans are being lied to daily and they don’t care – those charged with treason are Ukrainians but your government won’t tell you that. Instead they make it seems it’s Russians

  18. In the entire world only two people in charge for everything – Putin and Trump ! Period ! And do not forget Zelensky is a professional jester , clown In another words pathological lair , con artist. I wish everyone can listen people of Ukrainian in person. Staggering truth. It is more then ridiculous listen " news" about Russia and Ukraine from people who do not have any clue where these countries and anything about people We know him very well. Unfortunately

  21. This is only common sense, the two countries are at war, if either ukraine got their hands on shorty vlad, I am sure his fate would be sealed too. So each side better watch out, you sneeze you loose

  24. All lies. Ukraine would have been safer and still intact if Zelenskyy wasn't in the picture. So easy for the world to ignore US intelligence that stated arming Ukraine would be its demise. This is how Western whyte supremacy works…it's always Western whyte supremacy.

  27. His own people will eliminate him. People are getting tired of him watching thousands of soldiers dying every day. Had he stayed neutral and not listened to Boris Johnson would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

  30. Desperation eh beglinzky and begraine? 😂
    His own puppets are tured of his BS!
    Blaming it on russia? You think people are ignorant? Cunning freeloader!

  34. Zelensky will be replaced by another nato puppet so russia knows there is little gained from Zelensky being removed
    Just thinking logically

  41. The security service of Ukraine is called the SBU. The security service of Russia is called the FSB. Just another example of American reporters who are too lazy to do research. What else is new?

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