2022
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According to the Ukrainian government, in early February 2022, Russian president
Vladimir Putininstructed Chechen leader
Ramzan Kadyrov to eliminate Ukrainian leaders.
[5] In early March, Ukraine intelligence said that Chechen commandos sent to assassinate Zelenskyy had been "eliminated", with help from
FSB agents sympathetic to Ukraine.
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In February 2022,
Redut PMC was ordered on a covert mission in the Kyiv region to infiltrate and eliminate the political leadership and the
Ukrainian Secret Service, by storming those institutions.
[7]More than one thousand fighters entered the Kyiv region for this purpose,
[8] however the mission failed due to the Ukrainian government having prior intel regarding the plan, resulting in Redut losing up to 90% of their fighting force.
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More than 400 Russian mercenaries from the
Wagner Group were reported to have been in Kyiv by late February 2022, with orders to assassinate Zelenskyy and destabilise the government enough for Russia to take control.
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2023
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In August 2023, it was reported that another alleged assassination attempt had been stopped after Ukraine's security service arrested a woman who was suspected of gathering information on Zelenskyy's trip to the
Mykolaiv region.
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2024
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In April 2024, a man was arrested in
Poland and was allegedly tasked with collecting information about
Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport, which is used by Zelenskyy, alongside possible aid towards Russian intelligence services on an assassination of him.
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In May 2024, two Ukrainian colonels were arrested for treason in an alleged plot by the
FSB to create a network of agents in an attempt to subdue those close to Zelenskyy and eventually take hostage and kill the President. The arrested colonels were members of the
State Security Administration, and three FSB members — Maxim Mishustin, Dmytro Perlin and Oleksiy Korne — were identified as those formulating the plot.
Kyrylo Budanov, a Ukrainian general, was reported to be the first to be assassinated in the plan, originally to be carried out prior to
Orthodox Easter sunday on May 5.
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