Ukrainian security services said on Monday they had thwarted an assassination attempt on the Defense Minister and the head of military intelligence in Kyiv and neutralized several of their suspected organizers.
The SBU (Ukrainian Security Service) announced on its Telegram account that it had “arrested assassins from the Russian secret service who were planning the assassinations” of Defense Minister Oleksiï Reznikov and military intelligence chief Kyrylo Boudanov. we see an armed group knocking down and handcuffing two men in civilian clothes who were walking towards a car.
A reward of more than $100,000
The arrest of these two men, one of whom came from Russia to Ukraine through Belarus, took place in Kovel, in the north-west of the Ukrainian territory.
According to the SBU, those arrested were preparing “the physical liquidation” of these two senior Ukrainian defense officials, as well as a “well-known Ukrainian activist” whose name it does not mention.
Each of these murders would be rewarded with a sum of between 100,000 and 150,000 dollars, the SBU said.
Source: BFM TV
