TBH I'm surprised that they waited until 800 days into their 3-day invasion to do this. I'd have thought they would fabricate something before they invaded.
It's because Russia said they would not assassinate a head of state. Zelensky's presidential term expires in May.
This would hold more water if they hadn't tried to assassinate him on countless occasions already (especially during the first few days of the war), but that tortured logic is about what I'd expect from them.
Wait, now they have morals?
Ah yes, the crime of trying to keep your nation free and alive through appropriate defensive measures. How truly dastardly (/s)
Honestly this might be the single most pathetic threat that I've seen in a long time. Is it even a threat? Publicity stunt? Honestly I don't know or care, because we all know this statement means about as much as a Trump tweet.
Sounds like pretext for an assassination attempt to me. I hope he stays safe.
Pretty sure they've already tried to kill the guy at least a few times by now. I know I would if I was Putin.
Isn't a war a large scale assassination attempt?
... No? Assassination has the goal to kill, a war has the goal of conquering or driving back someone else, deaths happen but they usually aren't the main goal. Large scale assassination would be genocide.
Desperate & pathetic.
A cunning strategy! He'll never expect it!
Check out this one weird trick for winning a war! NATO hates it!
remember when putin said russia would be victorious and the war would be over in three weeks?
Pretty sure that was three days
I hope Zelenskiy stays away from windows and airplanes.
Why would he? He's not in Russia (no matter how much Putin plays pretend on that).
Not being in Russia didn’t help Alexander Litvinenko
Yes, but Ukraine is currently at war with Russia and on hyper-alert for Russians trying to assassinate their president. They've stopped numerous assassination plots against him.
So your previous comment was meaningless and your sentiment around not needing to be careful is that they have been extremely careful
Or you could just have a laugh
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