Two Ukrainian colonels allegedly recruited by FSB to kill president as inauguration ‘gift’ for Vladimir Putin
, and other senior officials, using a network of agents who were recruited by Vladimir Putin’s domestic spy agency.said the alleged agents had been instructed to find someone close to the presidential guard
One of the alleged Ukrainian agents was a colonel serving in Ukraine’s state guard service. The colonel held several secret meetings with Kornev before 2022, which took place in a neighbouring European country, it said. The operation was supposed to take place before Orthodox Easter. A spotter was to keep watch on a house used by Budanov that the Russians intended to hit with a missile strike. An agent nearby would then attack other people at the site using kamikaze drones.
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