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“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)}