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Zelenskiy
orders purge of state guard after alleged assassination plots
Ukraine’s
president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, told the new chief of Ukraine’s state guard
service to clear its ranks of people discrediting it after two of its officers
were accused of plotting to assassinate senior officials.
The state
Security Service (SBU) said last month that it had caught two guard service
colonels accused of cooperating with Russia to plot the assassination of
Zelenskiy and other officials, including military intelligence chief Kyrylo
Budanov. The guard service provides security for various governement officials.
Zelenskiy’s
murder was intended as a “gift” for Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, who
was inaugurated at the Kremlin last month for a fifth time, the SBU said.
Introducing
Col Oleksiy Morozov to the staff on Monday, Zelenskiy said his main objective
was to ensure that only those who see their future tied with Ukraine join the
agency.
“And, of
course, the agency must be cleared of anyone who chooses not Ukraine for
themselves or discredits the state guard service,” he wrote on Telegram.
Zelenskiy
dismissed Morozov’s predecessor Serhiy Rud in May, two days after the SBU
detained agency employees who it said worked for Russia’s Federal Security
Service and leaked classified information.
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