(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) A Ukrainian security official has claimed that a plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was foiled last weekend, as the popular leader continues to defy Russia’s aggression.
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said an elite unit of Chechen special forces was “destroyed” while on their way to assassinate the president, according to the Washington Post.
“We are well aware of the special operation that was to take place directly by the Kadyrovites to eliminate our president,” Danilov said. “The Kadyrov elite group was destroyed.”
Danilov said that the Ukrainians were warned about the assassination attempt by Russia’s Federal Security Service. “The accuracy of these claims remains unclear,” according to Business Inside
A former CIA Russia “expert” told Yahoo News that Putin intends to assassinate the entire Ukrainian government.
“I think that would have been part of the plan, to send in mercenaries to conduct a ‘non-attributable decapitation strike’ against Ukrainian government leadership,” Daniel Hoffman told Yahoo News. “They would’ve sent them in weeks, months before the attack in order to be there to conduct surveillance and mount these attacks.”
“The fact that Zelensky is still alive means they haven’t been successful,” he continued. “But I don’t doubt that they’re there.”
Numerous hoaxes intended to give the Ukrainians an upper hand in what has been called the online or social media war have recently been exposed, many of them after being tweeted and retweeted by warmongering U.S. government officials.
CNN, for example, reported as fact claims that the Russians had massacred a squadron of defiant Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island, and then later retracted the claim.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger made a fool of himself numerous times on Twitter, after falling for a hoax regarding a Ukrainian fighter pilot — dubbed the “Ghost of Kyiv” — who was single-handedly fighting off Russian fighters.
