Ukraine’s Strategy In The Event That Vladimir Putin Invades And Assassinates Zelensky
According to Politico, Ukraine has a strategy in place in case its president is slain during a Russian invasion because psychological trauma experts predict such an occurrence would cause. Volodymyr Zelensky was instrumental in rallying the international community to resist Russia because he refused to flee at the beginning of the conflict. Because of this, the story alleged, ultra-nationalist military bloggers and Russian MPs are calling for him to be the first victim.
Zelensky has already been the target of several assassination attempts, but none of them were successful, it continued. Top Zelensky advisor Mikhail Podolyak revealed there had been at least a dozen serious assassination attempts on his boss by Russian sabotage and intelligence teams, including Chechens and Wagner mercenaries trying to breach Kyiv’s heavily guarded and monitored government quarter, a few weeks after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, the report claimed, adding that “Zelensky himself reportedly opened a Zoom meeting with U.S.
What Would Ukraine Do If Zelensky Were To Be Killed?
In accordance with the Ukrainian constitution, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament) assumes the presidency in the event that the president is unable to carry out his or her duties. According to Adrian Karatnytskyi, a senior fellow at the Eurasia Centre of the Atlantic Council, Ukraine has a “strong leadership team” and would have a “collective government” in the event of the president’s passing.
Stefanchuk, who would serve as chairman, the former film producer Andrii Yermak, the foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, and the defense minister Oleksii Reznikov would likely make up the governing board. According to Adrian Karatnytsky, Valerii Zaluzhnyi would continue to be the highest general in the nation.
“The country has reached a point of very substantial solidarity and national unity, so if something terrible happened to Zelensky, it would not be as decisive as you might think,” he added, pointing out that Ukraine had developed a “well-honed” bureaucratic, military, and diplomatic apparatus.
“I’m not trying to suggest Zelensky isn’t at all relevant to this. The crucial thing, in my opinion, is the nation’s togetherness, he added.
