The Security Service of Ukraine has opened six criminal cases of encroachment on the life of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since his inauguration, the Ukrainian News portal reports.
Zelensky became president of Ukraine on May 20, 2019, replacing Petro Poroshenko in this post.
“The SBU carried out a pre-trial investigation in four cases concerning the encroachment on the life of the president under Article 112 of the Criminal Code and in two cases on the facts of death threats, harm to the president’s health under Article 346 of the Criminal Code,” the portal quotes the SBU's response to its request.
In early September, the SBU reported that the service's call center had received a message threatening the president, after which the special service launched an investigation. The Ukrainian online edition Vesti.ua, citing a police source, reported that the caller said that he had heard of the intention to assassinate the president. The police called back the number from which they received the message, they were answered by an employee of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The woman said that the phone was asked by a man who was constantly in Lavrskaya Square and, probably, suffers from mental disorders.
The fact that the call to the SBU was made by a mendicant “with a shattered psyche” who borrowed a phone from an unknown woman was also reported by Strana.UA, citing its own source in the SBU.
In February 2020, employees of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine summoned the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Sofia Fedyna, for interrogation because of the statements she made in 2019. Then, commenting on Zelensky's trip to the disengagement area in Donbass, Fedyna, together with a volunteer known as Marusya Zveroboy, recorded a video discussing the possibility of the president's death.
