After two of its soldiers were detained this month over an reported death story, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the head of the department in charge of his personal protection on Thursday.
Sergiy Leonidovich Rud was appointed the head of Ukraine’s State Protection Department, according to Zelenskyy’s order.
It did not provide a justification for Rud’s treatment or a name for a possible replacement for the delicate position.
Following the SBU protection service’s statement on Tuesday that it had foiled a Russian plot to kill Zelenskyy and other senior officers, the SBU security services in Ukraine made the announcement.
On suspicion of providing Russian’s foe FSB security company with secret information, it claimed to have detained two generals from the guard department.
One of them, it alleged, had privately provided jet sessions, drones and anti- staff mines for an adviser to carry out attacks.
Rud, 47, had headed the division– which oversees the private security of the president, another top officials and their families– since 2019.
Since its February 2022 invasion, Russia has been targeted by Zelenskyy. He claimed last year that he was aware of at least “five or six” destroyed death plots against him.
