Zelensky on Thursday fired the head of the department responsible for his personal protection.
Kyiv:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday fired the head of the department responsible for his personal protection after two of his officers were detained this week over an alleged assassination plot.
Zelensky published a decree to “dismiss Sergiy Leonidovich Rud from the post of head of the State Protection Department of Ukraine.”
It did not state the reason for Rud’s removal nor did it name a replacement for the highly sensitive position.
The announcement came after Ukraine’s SBU security service announced on Tuesday that it had foiled a Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky and other senior officials.
He said he had detained two colonels from the bodyguard department on suspicion of passing secret information to Russia’s rival security service, the FSB.
One of them, he alleged, had personally supplied rockets, drones and anti-personnel mines to an agent to carry out attacks.
Rud, 47, had headed the department – which oversees the personal security of the president, other senior officials and their families – since 2019.
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