At the beginning of the war there were two hostile attempts to storm Zelensky’s residence: at that time there were the first lady and children
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KYIV. UkraineGate , 29 , April , 2022 | War News
At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers made two attempts to storm the residence of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. At that time, First Lady Olena Zelenska and their children were still there. About it writes Time .
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At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, the military reportedly reported that Russian strike groups had landed in Kyiv to kill or capture the President and his family.
“On the night of that first evening, a firefight broke out around the government quarter. Security guards turned off the lights inside and brought bulletproof vests and machine guns to Zelensky and about a dozen of his aides. “, – the article says.
According to the adviser to the head of OP Arestovich, the Russian troops made two attempts to storm the residence. Zelensky later confirmed that his wife and children were still there at the time.
Zelensky’s bodyguards urged him to leave the residence immediately. The building is located in a densely populated area, surrounded by private houses that can be “nests” for enemy snipers. Some houses are close enough to throw a grenade out the window across the street.
“The place was wide open,” says Arestovich. “We didn’t even have concrete blocks to block the street,” he added.
Zelensky is currently working in isolation.
Addition
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov stated that Putin had not canceled the task of eliminating Ukraine’s top political leadership.
The SBU reported that since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, a sabotage and reconnaissance group that planned to assassinate the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has been liquidated .
Source: Ukrgate