Ukraine officials held over Russian plot to killPresident Zelensky | BBC News

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The Ukrainian security service (SBU) said it has foileda Russian plot to assassinate President VolodymyrZelensky and other high-ranking Ukrainian officials.

Two Ukrainian government protection unit colonels have been arrested.

The SBU said they were part of a network of agentsbelonging to the Russian state security service (FSB).

They had reportedly been searching for willing"executors" among Mr Zelensky's bodyguards whocould take him hostage and kill him.

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