Ukraine’s Security Service Reveals Details of Assassination Attempt on Zelenskyy

Last year, the Security Service of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Polish special services, foiled an assassination attempt on the president of Ukraine at the Rzeszów Airport.

This was told to Glavkom website by the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Vasyl Maliuk, at a closed meeting with journalists.

The crime was to be committed by a Polish citizen. The plan was to physically eliminate the Ukrainian president when he arrived at the Rzeszów Airport. Among the means of assasination, he considered a sniper system and an FPV drone.

“A military pensioner, a Pole, who was recruited decades ago and he sacredly believed in the Soviet idea and nurtured the intention over the years. So, he – this “canned food” – was activated,” Maliuk said.

Poland helped prevent the assassination of the president: in cooperation with ABW (Internal Security Agency of Poland) operatives, Ukrainian Special Services managed to thwart the assassination attempt.

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Polish ABW. This is an analogue of the SSU on the territory of Poland, the so-called Internal Security Agency. We implemented an important criminal proceeding together with them,” he noted.

Earlier, in April 2024, the Polish authorities announced the indictment of a man named Pavel K., who was instructed to “assist the Russian Special Services in planning an attack on the life of the head of a foreign state – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.”

At that time, it was reported that the arrest had been made on the basis of Ukrainian intelligence data. The detainee allegedly agreed to provide Russian intelligence officers with information about the security system of the Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport, located in southeastern Poland.

The Rzeszów Airport is the main Polish transport hub on the way to Ukraine, which is used by government delegations during foreign trips. In addition, it is actively used to receive foreign military cargo.

Organization of the assassination attempt by State Security Administration officers

The head of the SSU also gave the details of another assassination attempt on the president, which was prepared in May 2024 by two colonels of the Ukraine’s State Security Administration, working for the so-called 5th Service of the Russian FSB.

The recruited officers were looking for people and planned to carry out the assassination during Zelenskyy’s transition to the territory of the President’s Office.

“For our part, it was a very difficult job. We have been doing it for almost two years, in fact, since the beginning of the war. We carried out a intense intelligence and technical penetration into this group,” said Maliuk.

Previously, Militarnyi reported that the enemy’s plan had included monitoring the movement of the first person and transmitting to the Russian side the coordinates of the house where he had been supposed to be located for a missile strike.

The survivors were planned to be finished off with drones after the first strike, after which another missile was to hit the place to destroy traces of the drones.

One of the detained Ukrainian State Security Administration’s colonels personally brought FPV drones, RPG-7 grenades, as well as MON-90 anti-personnel mines to Kyiv, which the agent was supposed to use on the spot.