President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with The Sun commented on the attempts on his life and compared them to the first outbreak of the of the Covid19 pandemic. According to him, the first time was scary, but with each new case it is becoming commonplace, UNN writes.
The first one (the attempted murder - ed.) is very interesting, and then it's like Covid. For the first time, people don't know what to do with it, and it looks very scary. And then, after that, it's just intelligence that shared with you the details that another group has arrived in Ukraine, to try to do this
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The President of Ukraine said that since the beginning of the of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine , he has survived at least "five or six" plots to to assassinate him.
In the interview, he also did not deny the fatigue of the of the Ukrainian people from the constant shelling, but added:
"If you ask them ask them, are you ready to give our lands to Russia ? Are you ready to talk to the Russians about about how to end all this? Are you personally ready to compromise with Putin and are you tired of it? They will tell you that we are not tired. We are ready to keep standing."
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On the first day of the Russian invasion in February 2022 Russian special forces landed in Kyiv to assassinate President Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy. Then his security blocked his office with makeshift barricades and and pieces of plywood. His closest aides were given guns and bulletproof vests. But when British and American officials offered to take the president out of the capital , he responded with a legendary phrase: "I need ammunition, not a taxi."
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In June, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said, that since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion , President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been assassinated five times attempted to kill him. All of them were committed in late February and early March.
In early March 2022, The Times already reported about three attempted assassination attempts on Zelenskyy in a week.
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