High-Ranked Ukrainian Security Officers Detained For Preparing Attempt On Zelensky

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On May 7, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported that two senior officers of the State Security Department of Ukraine were detained on suspicion of “preparing an attempt on Vladimir Zelensky.” The SBU claims that attempts on the Ukrainian leaders of state security officers were allegedly ordered by Russian special services. 

The head of one of the departments of the Administration of State Guard of Ukraine, Andrei Guk, was detained suspected of treason. The security forces accuse him of collecting and transmitting information on a number of protected persons, including President Vladimir Zelensky.

Colonel Andrei Guk and his unnamed colleague, another officer with the rank of colonel, were detained on allegation for preparing together with three other persons attempts on the President of Ukraine and a number of other high-ranking officials, including the director of the SBU and the chief of military intelligence (GUR). As a result of search operations, weapons and ‘a number of other evidence of the involvement of the suspects in the preparation for the attacks were found’.

According to the SBU, Zelensky was planned to be “taken hostage.” Then the head of the Kiev regime had to be eliminated. As for the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, they were going to kill him by launching a missile attack on his house. The attackers  allegedly were going to destroy the possible survivors of the attack with the strikes of unmanned aerial vehicles. At the same time, the SBU claims that drones and mines were personally brought by the colonel Guk from another region of the country.

Journalists clarify that the operation of the Ukrainian security forces took place on May 5. Andrei Guk was close to the head of the state guard, Sergei Rud, who was appointed to the post by Zelensky himself. Therefore, the detention of officers is likely another manifestation of the internal struggle in the leadership of the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.

The fairytales about the plans to take hostage the President and launch missiles on the the head of the GUR are more suitable for blockbusters in Hollywood; but Kiev continues telling them to the long-suffering Ukrainian people, which is ready to believe any lies after decades of nationalist propaganda.

At the same time, Moscow is not interested in death of a the acting Ukrainian president Zelensky because he is a weak puppet figure and a poor politician, who is rapidly losing the public support. On the other hand, on May 6, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reported that “the Americans have intensified efforts to find an alternative” to Zelensky. That’s why they began appropriate contacts with the head of the European Solidarity party, ex-president and oligarch Petro Poroshenko, Mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko, head of the Office of the President Andrei Ermak, ex-commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny and former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Dmitry Razumkov.

“It is assumed that these figures may be in demand in the event of a sharp deterioration of the situation at the front and the need for an urgent change of leader. Then it will be possible, writing off all the failures to Zelensky, to choose one of them. The main thing is to prevent a critical increase in Ukrainians’ disappointment with the failures of pro—Western policy,” Russian intelligence officials note.

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