Ukraine has claimed it eliminated an elite group of Chechen fighters that were plotting to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky, oyogist reports.
Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine’s Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council said this during a televised address released few minutes ago.
‘We are already aware of the special operation that was to be carried out by Kadyrov forces unit,’ Danilov said on Ukraine 24 TV channel.
‘We received the information from representatives of Russia’s Federal Security Service who do not want to take part in this bloody war.
‘The Kadyrov forces unit, which came to kill our President, was eliminated.’
Danilov said the unit had been split into two groups and its movements were being closely tracked.
He said that one of the two groups came under fire from Ukraine’s forces in Hostomel – a north-west suburb of Ukraine’s Kyiv capital.
The other unit was ‘in our sights’, he said further.
