Zelensky on Thursday fired the top of the area liable for his private coverage.
Kyiv:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday fired the top of the area liable for his private coverage later two of its officials had been detained this while over an alleged assassination plot.
Zelensky revealed a decree to “dismiss Sergiy Leonidovich Rud from the post of head of the State Protection Department of Ukraine”.
It didn’t atmosphere a explanation why for Rud’s elimination or title a substitute to the extremely delicate place.
The announcement got here later Ukraine’s SBU safety carrier introduced Tuesday it had foiled a Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky and alternative senior officers.
It mentioned it had detained two colonels from the bodyguard area on uncertainty of passing undisclosed data to Russia’s rival FSB safety carrier.
Considered one of them, it alleged, had individually equipped rocket rounds, drones and anti-personnel mines for an agent to hold out assaults.
Rud, 47, had headed the area — which oversees the private safety of the president, alternative senior officers and their households — since 2019.
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