Russian Plot to Assassinate Zelensky Averted

Jakub Ferencik
4 min readApr 19, 2024

Plans to assassinate presidents are not new. We are all familiar with them.

It is also no secret that the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has been a target of Vladimir Putin since the start of the full-scale invasion, if not before.

This wouldn’t be the first time there was a Russian plot against a Ukrainian president’s life. Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin, a chemical found in Agent Orange. According to reports, his blood dioxin level was “more than 1,000 times" the normal level.

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Jakub Ferencik

Author of “Up in the Air,” “Beyond Reason,” & "Surprised by Uncertainty" on AMAZON | MA McGill Uni | 750+ articles with 1+ mil. views