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Zelenskyy says he survived no fewer than 5 Russian assassination attempts
NBC News.com ^ | November 21, 2023 | Yuliya Talmazan

Posted on 11/22/2023 4:53:45 AM PST by Timber Rattler

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has lost count of assassination attempts he’s survived, comparing them to bouts of Covid.

In an interview with the British tabloid The Sun, he said that he’s survived "no fewer" than five or six attempts on his life since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, but that each subsequent attempt makes it less intimidating.

NBC News could not independently verify Zelenskyy’s claims about attempts on his life.

“The first one is very interesting, when it is the first time, and after that it is just like Covid,” Zelenskyy said. “First of all, people don’t know what to do with it and it’s looking very scary. And then after that, it is just intelligence sharing with you detail that one more group came to Ukraine to [attempt] this.”

Zelenskyy regularly moves around the country, visiting front lines and liberated cities, under strict security. In the capital, Kyiv, he works out of a high-security complex. In the early days of the war, he said he and his family were primary targets of Russia, but Ukraine has rarely publicly revealed any attempts on his life.

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Zelenskyy told the Sun that Russia still “wants very much” to topple him from power, and he claimed to even know the code name of its latest mission to oust him; its deadline, he said, is the end of the year. ,p> “The name of operation is Maidan 3. It is meant to change the president,” he said. “Maybe it’s not by killing. I mean it’s changing. They will use any instruments they have.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: assassination; putin; zelenskyy
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21 posted on 11/22/2023 5:33:10 AM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: Timber Rattler

It’s hard to hit, successfully, such a small target...

Think about it — it’s like trying to assinate Peter Dinklage!


22 posted on 11/22/2023 5:43:42 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Oh, boo hoo.

Who cares. Go live in your American funded luxury houses you POS.


23 posted on 11/22/2023 5:55:00 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Timber Rattler

He’s not worthy of $1 from us. He’s having his nation demolished in order to retain land that they do not hold and have not held for years. His goal is ethnic cleansing even though those Ukrainians are forever connected to Russia by their ancestors.


24 posted on 11/22/2023 6:03:16 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Liz
We can call the first 2 decades of the 21st century ‘The rise of government of the grifters.’

Is everyone in public life a self-aggrandizing grifter?

25 posted on 11/22/2023 6:04:17 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: C210N

What is it that you think that photo shows?

You can also ask yourself why your source uses blurred photos of heads of state, you don’t think it a little odd that these normal photos of heads of state are blurred by your source?


26 posted on 11/22/2023 6:27:20 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: C210N
This thread has our more gullible members posting a lot of the fake stories put out on the internet.

Here is a bigger version of your fake story, notice how blurry these professional media photos of the President of the United States meeting the President of Ukraine are?


27 posted on 11/22/2023 6:43:12 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: bert

Somebody needs a hug, and emotional support animal. Stat!!😂


28 posted on 11/22/2023 6:44:31 AM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: bert
He’s wrong........ he gets at least 140 every day on Free Republic made by the Russia loving war criminal posters


29 posted on 11/22/2023 6:55:43 AM PST by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers - Free Extremely Extreme Extremist! )
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To: SMARTY
---- "Is everyone in public life a self-aggrandizing grifter?"

Darn near....

30 posted on 11/22/2023 7:00:05 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s all a bunch of nonsense.


31 posted on 11/22/2023 7:03:23 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: Timber Rattler

PROPAGANDA POST OF THE DAY AWARD FROM CIA TO TIMBER RATTLER

What a load of crap you post here.


32 posted on 11/22/2023 7:40:27 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Timber Rattler
The story claims he said "he’s survived "no fewer" than five or six attempts on his life since Russia invaded Ukraine last year

He didn't say by the Russians. NBC's headline does though.

There are a lot of people who might want to assassinate Zelensky, Ukrainian politics is a rough and tumble world.

NBC also reported this:
Putin promised not to kill Zelenskyy, former Israeli prime minister says

I suspect Putin has ordered there be no assassinatiom attempts on Zelensky. One reason I think this is that Zelensky is still alive Also; Zelensky is a clownish figure, frequently the object of ridicule in the West. From what we hear he is also a poor military strategist.

I assume that Zelensky may eventually be assassinated, but not by Russians but by some of his own Ukrainian people. How would you feel about the man who ordered your daughter drafted and killed.

There has been a lot of speculation that after he's deposed he will seek exile in a foreign country. Apparently he owns homes in several. He has the birrh-right to live in Israel, as a Jew, of course. That may be his first choice for his post-presidential exile. Moving away from Ukraine to a country that might give him secret service protection would probably be a good idea to avoid being assassinated by angry Ukrainians. If Russia wants him dead it won't help much.

33 posted on 11/22/2023 7:51:48 AM PST by Vlad0
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To: C210N

You aren’t curious about why your source posting the fake information uses blurred photos to mislead you?

You aren’t curious about who that really is being blurred out?


34 posted on 11/22/2023 12:51:36 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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