“FIVE OR SIX” ATTEMPTS
The SBU revealed pictures of masked operatives in camouflage uniform arresting a number of suspects at evening.
In a video posted on the SBU’s web site, a person along with his face blurred stated his job was to “take a look at the temper” among the many presidential workplace’s safety guards, and choose somebody able to detain the president, probably as he went to provide his nightly broadcast.
The SBU stated Russia additionally deliberate to remove Maliuk, in addition to the top of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov and different officers.
Budanov was because of be assassinated earlier than Orthodox Easter, which fell final weekend, the SBU stated.
The service’s spokesman Artem Dekhtyarenko stated the murderer had been promised a reward of as much as US$80,000.
It revealed video footage purportedly of an FSB handler telling an agent to surveil a home linked to a goal, apparently Budanov, and textual content when he arrived.
“You will most probably hear a loud blast,” the person says, telling the agent to then use a drone to hold out a secondary strike.
