A Duma deputy and former military commander said there are no plans to take out the Ukrainian president.
Andrey Gurulyov, a Russian parliament member and former military commander, made the comments during a discussion on the Russia-1 programThe Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House,The book said that before Russia invaded Ukraine last February,Director Bill Burns traveled to Kyiv to inform Zelensky of a Russian plan to assassinate him. When the Ukrainian president was given"precise details of the Russian plots...
Ukrainian officials have said that Zelensky has survived more than 12 separate attempts on his life by Russian forces since the start of the war. Whipple wrote that U.S. intelligence tipoffs helped thwart two of those tries. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks in Lviv on January 11. A Russian parliament member said recently on state TV that Moscow is capable of killing Zelensky if it wants to.In front of a screen that showed the excerpt from The Independent, anchor Olga Skabaeeva asked Gurulyov for his take on the Whipple book's story.
"If a nail had to be hammered into Zelensky's coffin, it would have been done a long time ago, I assure you," he said during Tuesday's program on Russia-1, a state TV channel."No such goal or objective was set. That is why Zelensky is alive at this stage." "And the CIA can tell tales to whoever they like and as long as they like. It's for losers," he said.
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