Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, told the state-run TASS media outlet last week that Zelensky is a "legitimate military target," signaling that more assassination attempts will likely follow.
According to Medvedev, "[Zelensky] already heads a political regime hostile to Russia, which is waging war on us" and "leaders of countries waging war are always considered a legitimate military target" — despite the fact that Russia initiated the conflict by invading Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. ...
In March 2022, shortly after the fighting began, Moscow sent an assassination squad from Chechnya that was identified and eliminated by Ukraine security forces outside Kyiv.
Then-Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council secretary Oleksiy Danilov reported at the time that Zelensky had survived multiple assassination attempts in the same week by Wagner PMC mercenaries and Chechen special forces, which were foiled in part thanks to anti-war intelligence officers in Russia’s Federal Security Services who tipped off Ukrainian forces.
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