Ukraine’s counterintelligence service reportedly foiled a Russian plot to infiltrate President Volodymyr Zelensky’s security team and assassinate him – just in time for Vladimir Putin’s fifth inauguration as the president of Russia.

Russian intelligence agents were caught targeting members of Zelensky’s security details in the hopes of taking him hostage and later killing him, the SBU State Security Service said Tuesday.

Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine – which guards the president and other government leaders – were detained on suspicion of leaking information to Russia’s Federal Security Service, the agency said.

The two colonels had been recruited before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the statement noted.

They are both facing charges of treason, which carries a life sentence.

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