<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Ukraine announced on Tuesday that it had detained two Ukrainian security officials involved in a plot coordinated by Russia to assassinate senior Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kyiv says that the Ukrainian leader has been targeted by Russia on multiple occasions, including at the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Security Service of Ukraine said in a statement that it had exposed a network of agents run by Russia’s Federal Security Service whose aim was to assassinate Zelensky and other senior Ukrainian political and military officials.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The network, whose activities were supervised by the FSB from Moscow, included two colonels of the State Security Department who were leaking classified information to Russia,” the SBU said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It said that Russia had worked to identify individuals close to Zelensky’s security detail who could take the Ukrainian leader hostage and kill him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Polish and Ukrainian prosecutors announced last month they had detained a man suspected of aiding a Russian assassination plot on Zelensky.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The SBU also said last August that a woman had been arrested over a plot to kill the Ukrainian leader by trying to uncover details of his movements outside Kyiv. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>