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Top official said it is the first time Russia has recruited such high-ranking “moles” inside Ukrainian security services.

KYIV ­— Ukraine’s security service said Tuesday it had foiled a plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by undercover Ukrainian security officials who were working for Russia.

Two unnamed colonels from the Ukrainian State Security Department, the SBU — the main organization protecting top officials including Zelenskyy — were part of a group of covert agents helping Russia’s security service, the FSB, to plot the assassination, Kyiv said.

The colonels were arrested and Kyiv said the conspiracy included plans to also murder SBU chief Vasyl Malyuk and Military Intelligence boss Kyrylo Budanov.

Zelenskyy has previously said he has survived more than 10 assassination attempts. “But it is the first time such a high-ranking official of the state security department has become [the] enemy’s moles,” Artem Dehtiarenko, SBU spokesman, told POLITICO.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been carrying out a full-scale invasion of Ukraine for more than two years. Since the start, Russian officials and security services have launched intelligence operations against Ukraine, aiming to delegitimize and overthrow Zelenskyy and his government, while sowing panic among Ukraine’s troops and population who are exhausted by the war.

Both colonels were detained by Ukraine’s security service. If found guilty in court, they face life in prison for plotting a terror attack and state treason.

“One of the tasks of the FSB intelligence network was to search for executors among the military close to the protection of the president, who could first take him hostage and later kill him,” the SBU press service said in a statement.

Besides Zelenskyy, a group of FSB agents including the defector colonels were planning to assassinate spymaster Budanov, Kyiv said.

In that operation, a covert agent in Ukraine was supposed to track Budanov’s movements and pass the information to Russian operatives from the FSB, it continued.

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https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-assassination-plot-arrest-ukrainian-state-security-department/

I hope they are using some very intensive interrogation techniques on them.

lol I feel like it would have been better to use them for intel gathering. Wasted potential.

Bye

Yeah, kinda makes you wonder if this is just more Uke propaganda and the officers weren't acting to try to end the slaughter, like some of the attacks against Hitler.  Doubtful we'll ever get the truth but it makes for good headlines and it'll get the usual suspects around the globe wound up and lobbying for more money.  

This just in: Ukraine is not an independent democracy but a client state of America which has pushed Ukraine into ever-deepening conflict with Russia

Easy Not Guilty for me.

Like not knowing what "mole" means in this context?

FPNI

Patsies imo

Publicly switching sides is not being a mole. The bit you derped out about was about the first time anyone that senior had been caught working as a mole.

Sorry this is so complicated for you.

Just two?

Pathetic.

Surprised they only face life in prison as opposed to a firing squad during a time of war

How would they end the slaughter without just surrendering to Russia?

Different then Hitler, Ukraine is the defender not the invader. They didn't chose this war it was forced on them.

Assassination attempt = voiced objections

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Nobody seems to give a shit about the invasion of our country so why should anyone give a shit about the invasion of their country?

lol. So people trust Politico for news now?
The only person I've ever seen reference a Politico article is that Rachael Maddow dude.

Looks like they are still winning lol.

it won't be a long life

They might just be telegraphing the coup d'état that will eventually take out the Z-man.  I'm sure he fears his own government more than the Russians.

Correct, Putin launched an unprovoked invasion.

Honestly, the CIA should just assassinate Putin and install a new president.

A lot of Ukraine's propaganda is like that. "Russia bombed their own nord stream pipelines" is a prime example. I think the insult to intelligence is a power play, they want people to suspend disbelief and go along with the story rather than face a bunch of angry noises and name calling. Really similar to other post 2020 left wing causes. Just raise your fist and BLM will leave you alone, etc.

How would surrendering to Russia end the slaughter? You know there's a reason they've been fighting since 2014, right?

Unless other nations put boots on the ground Ukraine is going to end up ceding territory, even most of the people who were the most outspoken at the beginning of this mess are now admitting this.  Going to the negotiating table and ending this mess saves lives on both sides- that doesn't change the fact that both countries should have left the other alone (and yes, both sides, and a few others, had a hand in this despite the approved narrative); it's simply logistics, Russia has more people and material to continue throwing into this while Ukraine doesn't.  

Remove emotions from the equation and it is similar to Germany in WWII, the generals with experience saw that they could not win and that continued war was just going to further destroy Germany and kill off it's people.

I can remember a few oligarchs that got deaded, along with their entire families. Had something to do with the oil business, iirc.

Don't know who did Nordstream, just know I didn't.

Putin already purged his government of anyone intelligent or ambitious enough to replace him.  His replacement would be a drunk old Soviet hardliner who is even quicker to smack the nuke everything button.