The revelations happened after Putin declared victory… kinda.

Independent:

https://apple.news/AROcvhKD6TT-YRm7aOLBMyQ

In one of the alleged attempts, two colonels who were supposed to be protecting the Ukrainian president were in fact working for the Russian FSB and plotting to assassinate him last year, said Vasyl Malyuk, head of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), according to Kyiv Post.

The other alleged attempt was planned with a retired Polish military officer, Ukrainian National News reported. The pensioner was a former Soviet Union recruit who had recently been reactivated as a “sleeper agent” to assassinate Mr Zelensky at Rzeszów Airport in Poland, according to the newspaper.

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As the hostilities continued, the British defence ministry said more than a million Russian soldiers had died or suffered injuries so far. The estimates aligned with a study by the American think tank Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

The think tank put Russian deaths at around 250,000 and total casualties, including the wounded, at nearly 950,000, the Guardian reported.

The Ukrainian death toll is reportedly between 60,000 and 100,000, and total casualties are at about 400,000.

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