KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday fired the pinnacle of the division answerable for his private safety after two of its officers have been detained this week over an alleged assassination plot.
Zelenskyy printed a decree to “dismiss Sergiy Leonidovich Rud from the submit of head of the State Safety Division of Ukraine”.
It didn’t state a motive for Rud’s removing or identify a substitute to the extremely delicate place.
The announcement got here after Ukraine’s SBU safety service introduced Tuesday it had foiled a Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskyy and different senior officers.
It stated it had detained two colonels from the bodyguard division on suspicion of passing secret info to Russia’s rival FSB safety service.
Considered one of them, it alleged, had personally offered rocket rounds, drones and anti-personnel mines for an agent to hold out assaults.
Rud, 47, had headed the division — which oversees the private safety of the president, different senior officers and their households — since 2019.
Zelenskyy has been a goal for Russia because it invaded in February 2022. He stated final yr that he was conscious of a minimum of “5 or 6” foiled assassination plots towards him.
Zelenskyy printed a decree to “dismiss Sergiy Leonidovich Rud from the submit of head of the State Safety Division of Ukraine”.
It didn’t state a motive for Rud’s removing or identify a substitute to the extremely delicate place.
The announcement got here after Ukraine’s SBU safety service introduced Tuesday it had foiled a Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskyy and different senior officers.
It stated it had detained two colonels from the bodyguard division on suspicion of passing secret info to Russia’s rival FSB safety service.
Considered one of them, it alleged, had personally offered rocket rounds, drones and anti-personnel mines for an agent to hold out assaults.
Rud, 47, had headed the division — which oversees the private safety of the president, different senior officers and their households — since 2019.
Zelenskyy has been a goal for Russia because it invaded in February 2022. He stated final yr that he was conscious of a minimum of “5 or 6” foiled assassination plots towards him.
