Robert Fico’s failed assassination raises specter of Western plotting

#Robert #Fico ’s #failed #assassination #raises #specter of #Western #plotting #NATO #EU #Slovakia

" Slovak PM Robert Fico’s independent stance earned him the wrath of NATO and the EU. Did a Western-directed plot to remove his troublesome government from office trigger his assassination attempt? "

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Georgian PM accuses EU of ‘blackmailing’ him with assassination threat

#Georgian #PM #accuses #EU of ‘ #blackmailing ’ him with #assassination #threat #Georgia

"Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has claimed that a European commissioner told him he could end up suffering the same fate as Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who survived an assassination attempt last week."

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Georgian PM accuses EU of ‘blackmailing’ him with assassination threat

A European Commissioner warned Irakli Kobakhidze that he could end up shot like Slovakia’s Robert Fico, the Georgian PM has claimed

^RT

#putin #zelensky #russia #ukraine #kidnapping #assassination

“The Ukrainian security service (SBU) says it has foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other high-ranking Ukrainian officials.
Two Ukrainian government protection unit colonels have been arrested.
The SBU said they were part of a network of agents belonging to the Russian state security service (FSB).
They had reportedly been searching for willing "executors" among Mr Zelensky's bodyguards to kidnap and kill him.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68968256

Russian plot to kill Zelensky foiled, Kyiv says

Two Ukrainian security officials are held over a Russian plot to assassinate the president, Ukraine says.

^{By James Waterhouse in Kyiv and Laura Gozzi (BBC News)}