2024-05-10 20:01 Compiled by United Daily News Zhou Chenyang/Reporting in real time
Ukraine’s intelligence agency recently detained two colonels from the “National Protection Service” (UDO) in charge of protecting the president on suspicion of participating in an assassination plot against President Zelensky and other senior officials. According to a brief official announcement, Zelensky has dismissed the director of the UDO.
CNN and the BBC reported that a decree published on the website of the Ukrainian Presidential Palace on the 9th stated that the Director of the UDO, Major General Serhii Rud, had been dismissed, but the reason was not given and a replacement has not been announced. appoint again.
The mission of UDO is to ensure the safety of the President of Ukraine and top state officials, as well as the protection of administrative buildings. However, after reporting earlier this week that two security officers were being held on suspicion of involvement in the Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office announced on the 7th that two UDO colonels had been charged with carry out “subversive activities against Ukraine” . “Activities in exchange for financial rewards”, both were accused of treason, and one of them was also accused of preparing a terrorist attack.
According to the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), it has “uncovered” a plot to assassinate Zelensky and other top officials, including the head of the SBU Vasyl Maliuk, and the head of the General Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Defense (GUR) Budano’s husband. Ukrainian prosecutors claimed that one of the suspects had received two drones and ammunition from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and intended to hand them over to another accomplice.
According to the official Ukrainian media Ukrinform, Rudd has been leading the presidential guard since 2019. Although there is no indication that he is in any way connected to the murder charges, it is believed that one of the colonels arrested, Andriy Huk , a personal friend of Rudd’s. Ukrainian media pointed to the fact that Rude and Hook attended the Border Force Officer School together many years ago.
Ukrainian President Zelensky and European Parliament Speaker Metsora (not pictured) held a joint press conference in Kiev on the 9th. You Xin…
The BBC and the Ukrainian Independent reported that President Zelensky frequently changes key figures in the Ukrainian security forces On the 9th, he also issued a decree to transfer Special Forces Commander Colonel Serhiy Lupanchuk from his current post after only a few months in the job; the former head of the Ukrainian army, General Zaluzny, was “released from the army on health grounds” the day before, retaining “the right to wear military uniform” and appointing an ambassador to the UK.
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