Attempt on Zelensky: should we doubt the published information?

There is no need to doubt the SBU’s information about an attempted assassination attempt on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as Poland has also confirmed the preparation of the crime and has already referred the case to court. At the same time, there are certain doubts about the ability to carry out this assassination attempt.

This opinion was expressed on the air of “Pryamoy” by Ivan Stupak, a military analyst, SBU employee (2004-2015).

“There is such information. These materials of the assassination attempt on President Zelensky are already in the Polish court. That is, the Polish side has already sent these materials to the court. Therefore, to say that this is all a fabrication… Well, listen, okay, one could still blame the Ukrainian side, but somehow the Polish side can’t bring itself to say that they invented everything, that they set everything up. Especially since the Polish side is actively working, once again, the materials are going to the Polish court. Not to some Kyiv court or some Ukrainian district court, which there is a certain distrust in. Everything is going to the Polish one, which we still have trust in,” Stupak noted.

At the same time, in his opinion, there are certain doubts about the ability to carry out this attempt.

“The other side of this attempt is how capable he was of carrying it out. Because so far we are talking about one person who could either launch a drone there or use a sniper rifle. He is also a pensioner of the Armed Forces. We do not know what kind of pensioner of the Polish Armed Forces this is. It could be, conditionally, a guard at a checkpoint, it could be a military man, it could be a cook, a soldier of the ground forces. Whether he has experience, expertise, the use of drones, a sniper rifle is unknown,” the military analyst reflects.

“And the last thing. Such things are not done by single people. It is always done in a team. At least two or three people. And here we are talking about one person for now. But we will wait, maybe there will be a briefing, maybe there will be more detailed data. Maybe by the Polish side, maybe by the Ukrainian side. And then there will be a broad understanding of what happened,” noted former SBU employee Ivan Stupak.

The day before, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Malyuk, informed that last year in Poland, at the Rzeszow airport , there was an attempt to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky . According to the SBU, the assassination of the Ukrainian president was planned by a Polish military pensioner who “believed fervently in the Soviet idea.”

It was previously reported that the Security Service and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, together with Polish law enforcement officers, exposed a Russian agent who was offering Russian special services an assassination attempt on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky .

According to the investigation, the intention of the Polish citizen, who collaborated with the Russian military intelligence (better known as the GRU), was to collect and transfer information about the security of the Rzeszów-Jasionka airport to the aggressor country. This was, among other things, to help the Russian special services plan a possible assassination attempt on Volodymyr Zelensky during his stay in Poland.

Later, then-President Donald Tusk reacted to the arrest of a Pole who, according to law enforcement, was preparing an assassination attempt on Volodymyr Zelensky. He stated that the detention was justified, and that a significant part of political assassinations are “the initiative of lone lunatics.”

By the way, in November 2023, Zelensky stated that Russian special services had repeatedly tried to kill him. The Ukrainian president compared the attempts on him, which he said he had survived at least five times, to the disease Covid-19.

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