This article summarizes the most important events of the war in Ukraine from Wednesday, May 9, 2024. It is the 806th day of the war.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyi fired the bodyguard chief. The reason for the dismissal was the department’s suspicion of an assassination targeting Zelenskyi.
- The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, has visited Kyiv on Europe Day.
- The Ukrainian Parliament has dismissed the Minister of Agriculture Mykola Solsky.
- According to Russian sources, Ukraine attacked an oil warehouse with drones.
Zelenskyi fired bodyguard chief: Tried to assassinate the president
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi fired the head of the department responsible for his personal protection on Thursday Sergiy Leonidovich Rudin because of an assassination attempt. This is reported by AFP.
The dismissal comes after two security officials were arrested this week over an alleged assassination plot.
Zelenskyi issued a statement “On the dismissal of Sergiy Leonidovich Rudi from the position of head of the State Protection Department of Ukraine.” It did not state the reason for Rudi’s dismissal, and Zelenskyi did not name a replacement.
Zelenskyi has said that he knows of at least “five or six” assassination attempts against him in the last year. ZumaWire / MVPHOTOS
The announcement came, according to AFP, after Ukraine’s security service SBU announced on Tuesday that it had uncovered a Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky and other high-ranking officials.
The SBU said it had arrested two colonels of the bodyguard division on suspicion of passing secret information to the Russian security service FSB.
Another of them is suspected of supplying rocket launchers, drones and anti-personnel mines to the agent for the attacks. Rud had been leading the department since 2019. The bodyguard department oversees the personal security of the president, other high-ranking officials and their families.
Zelenskyi has been the target of a Russian assassination attempt since the beginning of the war of aggression in 2022. He said last year that he knew of at least “five or six” failed assassination plots against him.
Roberta Metsola on a visit to Kyiv
President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola it was Europe Day on Thursday with a visit to Kyiv.
Metsola has published updates from its visit to the message service X. He met with the country’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyi and the prime minister Denys Šmyhalin. According to the parliament, the purpose of Metsola’s visit was to show Ukraine that the parliament continues to support Ukraine.
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The Ukrainian parliament fires the minister of agriculture
The Ukrainian Parliament has dismissed the Minister of Agriculture Mykola Solskyn, reports the Reuters news agency. Solsky submitted his resignation at the end of April.
Solsky is suspected of being involved in the illegal acquisition of state-owned land, says a member of parliament Yaroslav Zheleznyak In Telegram.
Solsky himself denies the allegations of corruption.
The Minister of Agriculture has been in a central position when efforts have been made to keep Ukraine’s grain industry running during the war. The Russian attack has blocked the export routes of the Black Sea, there are land mines in the fields, and the farmland has come under occupation.
Ukraine attacked Russian oil storage with drones
According to Russian sources, Ukraine attacked an oil warehouse in the Krasnodar region with drones, reports the Russian-language BBC.
Local residents wrote in Telegram that 7-8 drones attacked an oil warehouse in the village of Jurovka, near the city of Anapa. As a result of the strikes, a fire broke out there.
Russian authorities confirm drone strike on oil depot.
– About six drones were repelled, but several fell in the oil storage area. As a result, a fire broke out and several tanks were damaged, the operational staff of the Krasnodar region confirms in a Telegram message.
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