Zelensky assured that the authorities have a plan in case someone from the government is killed/AP
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky shared that the authorities had provided different options in case of a possible murder of someone from the country's leadership . The head of state also revealed some details of the plan.
During a briefing at the Ukrainian House in Davos, Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that Ukraine is a parliamentary-presidential republic, so, no matter how it sounds, the Ukrainian authorities are prepared for any loss.
Ukraine's plan in case someone from the leadership is killed
The President assured that no one will lead the state anyway. In particular, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine was divided into 2 separate parts.
According to our legislation, there is someone to govern the state. We were prepared and divided, me, the prime minister and the head of parliament. We have a parliamentary-presidential republic. We understood that if there was any loss, we would be ready for this process. We divided the Cabinet of Ministers into 2 parts, it was two takes, so that the country could be protected even from such results. – Zelensky said.
Journalists asked the president several times if there was a plan in case the invaders could still encroach on Volodymyr Zelensky, since such attempts had already been made.
Mostly the head of state laughed it off. And I even remembered the film “Groundhog Day”, in which the main character wakes up every morning on the same date. and help them. But in the morning I wake up and wake up. Therefore, I treat this philosophically,” Zelensky joked.
He never revealed to journalists what the Ukrainian authorities had come up with in the theoretical case of the loss of the head of state. But he emphasized that such a threat remains every day.
But as long as I'm alive, and this is not a hologram, I'm really talking to you, the president joked again.
What is known about the Russians' attempts to “remove” the leadership of the state:
- At least three assassination attempts were made on Zelensky in the first week of the war. The US and other countries offered to evacuate the president and his team from Kyiv to help them establish a government in exile, but the head of state refused, asking for weapons.
- In the first hours of a full-scale invasion, Russian strike groups parachuted into the center of Kyiv. Skirmishes broke out around the government quarter. The guards turned off the lights and brought body armor and machine guns for Zelensky and a dozen of his assistants. That night, the occupiers tried to storm the President's Office twice. In addition to the head of state, his wife and children were there.
- In early March, NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov spoke about the destruction of an elite group of “Kadyrovtsy” who planned to kill Vladimir Zelensky. He also said that the information was “leaked” by representatives of the Russian FSB, who did not want to participate in this.
- At the end of the same month, Markiyan Lubkivsky, adviser to the Minister of Defense, said that Wagner PMC was preparing an assassination attempt against the Ukrainian leadership – President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal.
- Also, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said that attempts were being prepared on three more people's deputies.
