“Zelensky’s assassination”: mercenaries on the trail of the Ukrainian president

They arrived from Africa with a very specific goal: to kill Volodymyr Zelensky. more than 400 Russian mercenaries subordinate Wagner Paramilitary Group They will find themselves in Ukraine, at the epicenter of the crisis, with the clear intention of getting rid of the Ukrainian president and some of his closest aides.

Wagner Group Shadow

While the spotlight was on Gomel, Belarus, where negotiations took place between the Russians and the Ukrainians, the hypothetical arrival of Wagner’s mercenaries on Ukrainian soil overshadowed the diplomatic efforts. The British newspaper reported this indiscretion timeswhich states that the militiamen returned five weeks prior to a mission in Africa. In exchange for Zelensky’s head, they will be promised a rich head Award. Apparently, it was possible to learn the news from Kyiv last Saturday, shortly before the imposition of a ban Total over the entire capital for fear of sabotage by the Russians. It is therefore possible that the authorities used the term “sabotage” to also refer – above all – to the Wagner Group’s mission.

According to a source linked to the same group, the first mercenaries – between 2,000 and 4,000 men – had landed in Ukraine in January with various missions. On the other hand, the new group will have the only necessity to decapitate the Ukrainian government and then give upUkraine in a few days. Some of them were deployed to the breakaway Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, while another 400 entered Belarus They are heading straight to Kyiv. “It is very effective. They can appear out of nowhere, do very violent things and then disappear again, leaving no trace of who might be responsible.The experts explained.

Not only Zelensky: the goals of mercenaries

Apparently, the mercenaries of the Wagner Group will have a large list of Objectives. In the first place, it is clear that there is President Zelensky, followed by others 23 men to be disposed of, among whom, in addition to the Prime Minister and members of the executive branch, and the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko and his brother Vladimir, both famous former boxing champions who took up arms against the Russian army. We remember that the Wagner Group is headed by one of Vladimir Putin’s closest allies, Evgeny Prigozhin, who is such a close ally of the Russian president that he is nicknamed “Putin’s chef”.

The mercenaries claim to know the hideout of Zelensky and his associates, and to be able to track down all targets in real time via cell phone. Another source added that the mercenaries were to be ordered to temporarily freeze their mission to allow the Russians to hold peace talks with the Ukrainians. In any case, the attackers would also have been informed that Moscow would not want to reach any agreement, and that the meeting in the last few hours would be nothing more than a frontal operation. In any case, the assignment of the Wagner Group does not seem to have bothered Zelensky much. In a recent address to the nation, the Ukrainian president actually admitted that “goal number oneIn Moscow, he explained to his compatriots that Russian special forces were chasing him.