Ukraine detains two over alleged Zelenskyy assassination plot

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said it had detained two Ukrainian security officials suspected of plotting to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top figures in the country in a plan coordinated by Russia.

“Counterintelligence and SBU investigators disrupted the FSB’s [Russia’s Security Service] plans to eliminate the President of Ukraine and other representatives of the highest military and political leadership of the state,” the SBU wrote on social media.

Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine were detained on suspicion of working with Russia’s Federal Security Service to carry out the plot.