Vasyl Maliuk, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), has said the SSU has managed to prevent two assassination attempts on journalist Dmytro Gordon – the Russians were supposedly ready to spend US$400,000 on this.

Source : Maliuk in an interview with the We-Ukraine TV channel

Details : Maliuk noted that two groups attempted to kill Gordon, explaining that for Russians, he is "like Solovyov is for us – only Solovyov is a propagandist, and Gordon tells them the raw truth", and that people in Russia watch him.

"That is why one group was working with a former MP from the Party of Regions, whose surname is Hrushevskyi. He is now in prison. We were tracking them for committing sabotage in Poltava Oblast… but in the process of documenting this, we realised that he was preparing and carrying out visual surveillance of Dmytro Gordon… They were already studying his daily schedule, and so on. And they were trying to figure out the place where he spends the night. A missile and Shahed drone strike was being planned. They only needed to provide an exact coordinate," Maliuk said.

He added that the perpetrators were detained preventatively.

"However, that was not the end of it. And the FSB decided to push through their criminal operational plan. In another scheme, they involved a Dagestani ethno-national organised criminal group… Even before the war, one young man had been sent here, who married here, settled in, and built an appropriate cover story. And they were preparing Gordon’s murder. The price of the matter was US$400,000," Maliuk said.

He clarified that the Russians wanted to kill Gordon with a short-barrelled rifled weapon, and if the journalist was with a bodyguard, then with an automatic rifle, and "to make a controlled shot with a pistol".

"He [the Dagestani – ed.] and his accomplices have all been detained and all imprisoned," Maliuk clarified.

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