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While it does not make clear without delay how viable the plan is, officials from the group said it as a reminder that the Kremlin remains committed to toppling President Volodymyr Zelensky.
By Marc Santora
Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukraine’s security said on Monday that they had foiled some other Russian plot to stoke public unrest and then use the resulting unrest to topple the government, describing a familiar tactic that Kyiv says has been used in a number of coup attempts in recent years.
Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency, the SBU, said it had exposed a “group” of conspirators whom it accused of making plans to start unrest, building parliament and updating the country’s military and civilian leaders. Four other people have been arrested and charged, according to authorities.
While they offered some main points about how such an ambitious plan could have succeeded, officials said it as a reminder that more than two years after launching a full-scale invasion of the country, the Kremlin remains committed to toppling President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government through any means necessary.
On the battlefield, Russia continues to send tens of thousands of new infantrymen to the front lines to upgrade the dead in hopes of exhausting the Ukrainian military and Kyiv’s Western supporters. At the same time, Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukraine’s critical infrastructure is aimed, in part, at strangling the economy and undermining the state’s ability to function.
According to Ukrainian and Western officials, the Kremlin has also long waged more covert campaigns to destabilize the government in Kyiv, in some cases to stoke discontent through disinformation.
The plot described Monday by Ukrainian domestic intelligence and prosecutors fits this pattern perfectly.
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