Ukrainian security services said Monday, August 8 to have foiled an assassination attempt on the Minister of Defense and the head of Ukrainian military intelligence and to have neutralized several of its alleged organizers.
The SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) announced on its Telegram account that it had “
arrested Russian secret service killers who were planning the assassinations of Defense Minister Oleksiï Reznikov and the head of military intelligence Kyrylo Budanov.”
He broadcast a video of these arrests on which we see an armed group knocking down and handcuffing two men in civilian clothes who are heading towards a car.
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The arrest of these two men, one of whom arrived from Russia in Ukraine via Belarus, took place in Kovel, in the north-west of Ukrainian territory.
According to the SBU, those arrested were preparing "the physical liquidation
of these two senior Ukrainian defense officials as well as a
known Ukrainian activist" whose name he does not mention.
Each of these murders was to be rewarded with a sum ranging from 100,000 to 150,000 dollars, the SBU said.
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