r/worldnews • u/blllrrrrr • 12d ago
Zelensky says he's survived 'five or six' assassination attempts by Putin's forces Russia/Ukraine
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/vladimir-putin-assassination-attempt-volodymyr-zelensky-russia-ukraine-b1121664.html3.8k
u/Far_Donut5619 12d ago
Five or six, he doesn't remember exactly. No big deal, just another day in the office
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u/Fappy_McJiggletits 12d ago
Meanwhile, when Prigozhin's forces were 100 miles away from Moscow during his short lived coup attempt, Putin fled the city like the sniveling coward he is.
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u/Phreekyj101 12d ago
I wish they would have continued their journey
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u/Green-Gain-3478 12d ago
That was one anticlimactic rebellion, very disappointing.
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u/socium 12d ago
You would kind of expect a bigbrain guy like Prigozhin to have secured his family first but apparently he wasn't all too bright up there in that department after all.
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u/Throwaway47321 12d ago
I remember reading that he wasn’t even actually trying for a rebellion just trying to do a show of force to remind Putin that it was essential him (Wagner) doing a lot of the heavy lifting. But then no one really stopped them and he had to call it off before he encountered real resistance in Moscow.
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u/TheNumberOneSperm 12d ago
It was more that Prigo wanted to overthrow Shogu and become in charge of the Russian army. Multiple times he claimed they were incompetent vocally and publicly, even claiming they bombed his camp which started the while coup.
The problem was that Putin sided with Shogu and didnt want to step him down making the coup against Shogu effectively against them both.
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u/DrNick1221 12d ago
As much as I hate to say it, Putin Siding with Shoigu is probably one of the better outcomes.
Just because of the sheer incompetence that Shoigu has shown off time and time again.
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u/MatureUsername69 12d ago
Putins running the Russian military the exact same way the Chicago Bears run their front office
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u/socium 12d ago
remind Putin that it was essential him (Wagner) doing a lot of the heavy lifting
If that's true, then that would make Prigozhin to be even dumber than I thought he was because even I know that if you do a "show of force" against Putin you either do it all the way or you risk having a giant metaphorical clock and target being hoisted over your head.
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u/SnoaH_ 12d ago
He wasn’t doing a show of force against Putin. He was doing a show of force FOR Putin. They wanted him to give control of his group to Shoigu. And he was showing Putin that Shoigu, leader of the MOD, isn’t as competent as he is.
IMO If there’s anything he’s stupid about, it’s miscalculating how dictatorships work. He was trying to make Shoigu look bad, but he made Putin look bad, and Putin can’t allow that.
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u/socium 12d ago
IIRC every time he ranted about the sorry state of Russian MOD he carefully avoided criticizing Putin, but that kind of changed during his coup attempt, no?
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u/SnoaH_ 12d ago edited 12d ago
Sort of. During the pump fake coup he was more loose with his words for sure and got looser as it went on.
Again this part is just my thoughts as someone who’s still bummed out I didnt go to sleep that night hoping to see future world history play out through my phone lol.
But in the beginning of it he wasn’t of Putin and mostly just Shoigu. I feel like once he had realized Putin wasn’t gonna take his side, he started getting more vocal about it to show he really could do it if he wanted to. But that kinda goes back to what I was saying about he didn’t realize how important it is for dictators to have a bulletproof image in the eyes of his people every minute of every hour of every day.
Not getting his family out, so he could still retain some sort of leverage in negotiations, during the attempt was an extreme miscalculation. I was hoping Putin would have to recall some of his people in Ukraine
Im glad he didn’t get control of the Kremlin, I really don’t want someone who routinely stands over his own people’s dead bodies, and screams at the camera that he needs more ammo, in charge of one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world; if he had planned it better, he could have at least been able to draw it out a little longer, allowing Ukraine to take back more of its land.
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u/alaskanloops 12d ago
I went camping off the grid as the “rebellion “ was starting, and was so excited the whole trip thinking putins time was finally up only to be real disappointed the moment I got back in service.
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u/Running-With-Cakes 12d ago
Prigo had spent a lot of time calling the Russian generals stupid cowards. He marched on Moscow because several generals promised to join him. Once Prigo had started the generals said we don’t know wtf you’re talking about. They stabbed him in the back and he had to call off the coup because he knew he couldn’t take Moscow of the army opposed him
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u/GrinningPariah 12d ago
Prigozhin imagined he could use a ploy like that to strengthen his own position, without actually undermining Putin or turning him against him.
Dude should have watched GoT. "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." Certainly seems true in Russia.
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u/Nestlebuymyjuice 12d ago
It was funny when I saw an exscavator tearing up the road to moscov, even if it was not the main road still funny
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u/GodOfHotDogs 12d ago
I mean I agree that Putin is a turd, but it just makes sense to leave. If you don’t have complete information on what you thought was a large and allied military force coming straight towards you it’s just good sense to leave.
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u/TricksterPriestJace 12d ago
Zelensky stayed, but then again he is a far braver man than Putin.
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u/aziruthedark 12d ago
Never have I been blueballed so hard. It's like watching someone add dickbutt to the Mona Lisa.
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u/JarasM 12d ago
Well, he likely can't remember all the reports. When he's reported that "he survived an assassination attempt", it doesn't necessarily mean he was literally dodging bullets and strangled an assassin himself. Most likely most of these attempts were foiled by Ukrainian forces well ahead of time.
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u/ced_rdrr 12d ago
In one of the interviews he actually said that it's not that someone got so close as to shoot. It was information from the security services that there was an attempt they prevented.
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u/TheDemonator 12d ago
Curious how much the USA and other allies are assisting there with SIGint
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u/Entire-Discipline727 12d ago
To a degree that would normally only be used to protect Five Eyes heads of government. I would wager that, if faced between losing Zelensky and directly intervening, NATO would start passing out Ukrainian flag patches to special forces.
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u/VanillaElectrical331 12d ago
This isn't even a joke, it's just true... Congrats to the SBU for their continued service so this guy can do his job.
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u/Promotion-Repulsive 12d ago
Z: "SBU, it's 2PM, time for me to visit the front again"
SBU: "Yes, Mr. President."
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u/Delicious-Ad5161 12d ago
In all fairness once you've had enough people try to murder you out of nowhere it does start to feel like a normal Tuesday when it happens again. Like each attempt just kind of blurs together and you lose count because you start having trouble parsing which things happened during which event.
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u/KingJames1414 12d ago
Spoken like someone who thinks they've experienced something vaguely similar
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u/Delicious-Ad5161 12d ago
Not nearly to the same degree as organized government back warfare included assassination attempts but yes I have experienced organized group efforts to kill me that lasted for years and have lost family to it in brutal ways. I recognize the steps of separation and vast differences between my experience and this but firmly believe that my experience is close enough to have an understanding of how at least some people’s minds process this over a periods of years or more after you’ve survived a handful of attempts in your life.
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u/kiklion 12d ago
Maybe there were two in one day and he isn't sure if it was 1 plan or 2 separate ones.
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u/SadBit8663 12d ago
At some point , you end up operating under that assumption, as the alternative is being frozen in fear .
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u/FakeChowNumNum1 12d ago
Just counting the ones Ukraine is aware of most likely.
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u/dizzlevizzle 12d ago
It’s highly likely that if Ukraine isn’t aware of an attempt, then it’s not going to be a failed attempt. These assassins aren’t tripping on their own laces.
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u/FakeChowNumNum1 12d ago
Just counting attempts by how many ACME anvil's are laying around the streets
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u/HailToTheKingslayer 12d ago
"I told you Ivan, they're not going to fall for the tunnel painted on a wall trick."
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u/Darraghj12 12d ago
Zelensky takes a right turn before the wall whereas another assassin trailing close behind him smashes into it. He falls out of the car in a dazs with a 2 foot long bump on his head with cartoon birds flying around it
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u/warcriminalchurchill 12d ago
More like Zelensky passes through the Acme stick on tunnel and emerges from Al Shifa.
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u/RandomComputerFellow 12d ago
I disagree. I think that a lot of assassination attempt are never discovered. An attempt can be as simple as:
- "we put an agent with a gun in front of a house we suspected him to visit but he never showed up"
- "we tried to exchange his water bottle but he used a different brand than the one we prepared"
- "one of our agent tried to be hired as his cook but he was send to a different facility than we expected"
- "we had a sniper on the neighboring building but he never stepped next to a window"
It is very easy to imagine such scenarios.
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u/Bacon-Shorts 12d ago
You forgot “assassin was doing pre assassination yoga on the floor missed the target when they showed there face for a moment, accidentally shot dominatrix”
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u/Johnny_Poppyseed 12d ago edited 12d ago
Dude was so dumb in that movie lol. Like get the movie's premise was the assassin dude taking things personally and acting out of character, but like, the movie painted him as this super professional, but he was just quite bad at his job the whole movie lol. Would have been better if they turned it into a dark comedy or something. Or just made him not suck. One or the other.
Tbh I thought the movie sucked and I'm normally very easy to please with this kind of film.
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u/cstross 12d ago
Let's not forget that the CIA made at least eight assassination attempts on Fidel Castro some of which were just utterly facepalm -- Mycobacterium tuberculosis spores in his diving suit? Hire the Mafia (repeatedly) to poison him (unsuccessfully)? Hide a bomb in his cigar (after he'd given up smoking)? Or (less lethally) put thallium in his boot polish in order to make his beard fall out and thus discredit his machismo?
I swear I could not make this shit up and put it in a novel: any editor worth their salt would reject it as implausible.
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u/wOlfLisK 12d ago
Or (less lethally) put thallium in his boot polish in order to make his beard fall out and thus discredit his machismo?
This is the weirdest one to me. If you have access to his boot polish, why don't you just, I dunno, put something more lethal in there?
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u/RaffiaWorkBase 12d ago
Sudden, unexplained death, symptoms consistent with toxin exposure, former army doctor in a cab on the way to the airport...
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u/Remotely_Correct 12d ago
You ascribe a lot of competency to Russia when they've continously proven over the last 2 years that they are no where near as formidable as they purported to be.
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u/JollyTaxpayer 12d ago
The true count is hidden. The published account is what Ukraine knows Putin knows...if they gave the real number their sources would be put at risk.
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u/VanillaElectrical331 12d ago
Correction: just counting the ones that they think were a bit impressive and wanted to brag about
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u/EastObjective9522 12d ago
Why even bother? Killing Zelensky would most likely make him a martyr
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u/NomadFire 12d ago
Most of the assassination attempts happened during the early days of the war. There is some evidence that point to the theory that Putin believed that they would be greeted as liberators in all of Ukraine. And that Zelenskyy was an unpopular puppet of the west. That almost everyone in Ukraine would be glad to get rid of.
He thought that Ukrainians were a minority in Ukraine, maybe even a made up group of people. That could be easily dealt with
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u/buddascrayon 12d ago
Yes, it's been pretty clear for a while that even though Putin is highly intelligent he is also extraordinarily delusional.
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u/midgethemage 12d ago
Probably doesn't help that he's surrounded by people that are afraid to tell him the truth if it goes against what he wants to hear
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u/sender2bender 12d ago
There's an actual clip of that happening in a meeting. Putin starts belittling whoever is giving him information, laughing and looking at the others. And the guy looks shook.
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u/SirJudasIscariot 12d ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russian warhawks are behind the domestic assassinations of those officers who understand the reality of the situation they’re in. Putin can afford to ignore the real world, his cult of personality and his authoritarian grip on the country are more or less absolute. He’s already neutralized his main political opponents, he can ship the anti war protestors his government arrests off to the Z units at any time, and he’s surrounded by men who are either fanatically loyal to him, or are loyal to the rewards he can give them.
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u/gingerkids1234 12d ago
Exactly, the FSB and other intelligence services won't tell him the reality of the situation and are directed to only report information that supports Putin's narrative.
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u/ImjokingoramI 12d ago
If you lie as much as him you'd be delusional too, I mean seriously at this point he probably doesn't even remember what were lies and what were the facts.
Kind of like Trump but smarter? Not that I would call him smart, just smarter than Donny. He managed to fool most of us for the longest time.
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u/ImjokingoramI 12d ago
Oh god I remember him pulling out old maps to "prove" that Ukrainians aren't an ethnic group and how everything is truly Russia.
That shit was so bad, almost as bad as the potato man showing the plans for Moldova accidentally. Also kinda Trump drawing on a hurricane map type energy.
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u/NomadFire 12d ago
I heard that Russia is the reason why people hate being called Eastern European or Slavic. Because Russia gave themselves the title of the saviours of the Slavs and Eastern Europe. And no one wants Russia to have the impression that they need saving again or that they owe Russia anything.
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u/mangelito 12d ago
Live in Czech Republic. Can confirm. People hate it. "It's central Europe". They are also technically right.
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u/campercolate 11d ago
More than technically. Parts of the Czech Republic are further west than parts of Austria or Germany. Their religious heritage is Catholic, not eastern orthodox. They use the Roman alphabet, not the Cyrillic alphabet. They were behind the iron curtain, but so was Berlin.
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u/GenericAntagonist 12d ago
Most of the assassination attempts happened during the early days of the war. There is some evidence that point to the theory that Putin believed that they would be greeted as liberators in all of Ukraine. And that Zelenskyy was an unpopular puppet of the west. That almost everyone in Ukraine would be glad to get rid of.
One of the many short comings of sociopaths is they assume everyone else thinks exactly like they do. If Zelensky and the Ukrainian government had reacted like Putin would've, which is to say fleeing the country with as much as they could loot, the popularity numbers would likely be quite different.
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u/PVT-Property 12d ago
Ukraine doesn’t need a Zelensky as a martyr. Every Ukrainian has lost loved ones; those are their martyrs.
What Ukraine needs is a leader; to set national strategy, win diplomatic aid, hire/fire talent, & to inspire the national resolve.
I wish it were a win-win game for Ukraine. But, sadly, Russia could indeed gain ground by killing Zelensky.
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u/andre5913 12d ago
It would be a tremendous hit to morale (which is quite important in war), also the internal power shuffle would be an issue. Ukraine would be in disarray at the very least for some days.
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u/VanillaElectrical331 12d ago
Round of applause for the SBU (the security service of Ukraine) for doing their job (not sarcasm).
To be honest this isn't surprising heads of state have security forces for this exact reason and most assassination attempts go unreported bc in normal circumstances it makes the head look bad. Five or six is actually far fewer than I expected, Russia seems to have lost its edge.
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u/canseco-fart-box 12d ago
Honestly gotta give a bigger round of applause to the guys that purged the shit out of the SBU and rebuilt in after the revolution. It was widely regarded as the most corrupt and Russian friendly agency in Ukraine for a while.
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u/Ligma_CuredHam 12d ago
Russia seems to have lost its edge.
Russia lost their perceived edge. They never had an edge. 30 years of not being involved in international conflict allowed Russia's PR machine to over hype their technical and tactical capabilities and hide their flaws.
Even getting the US intelligence community to believe the hype and way overestimate their ability, hence we thought they would take Kyiv within a week by our internal estimations.
Being at war with a poor Eastern European nation has killed a quarter million of their men which will wreck their work force and population and thus their economic and social structures of the future.... and exposed them as war fighting frauds. A weak, mortally wounded nation that for the next few decades will be posturing and fighting just to avoid a complete collapse of their borders.
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u/Iohet 12d ago
To be fair, Russia has been successful at assassinating people abroad. This would be a step up in station of the target, which should mean increased security, but Ukraine also had plenty of issues with Russian sympathizers in government, which is what I imagine they were banking on.
Either way, the edge they really had was that no one was willing to hold them accountable for violations of sovereignty, and they've certainly lost that.
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u/throway_nonjw 12d ago
He should tell Putin what Tito told Stalin.
"Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."
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u/jaomile 12d ago
Of all things that did not happen, that did not happen the most. There is no evidence of this supposed letter that Tito sent to Stalin.
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u/AllTheWayAbsurd 12d ago
The proof is right there in the comment above you. It is written so it is law.
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u/Frnklfrwsr 11d ago
Yeah, this is the internet. It must therefore be true.
No way someone would just write something false on the internet. Like who would do that? Do they not know where they are?
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u/m703324 12d ago
The whole thing for couple years now has been an ongoing assassination attempt. He's just counting how many times they got close to him. And that's 5 or 6 too many. This dude deserves to survive and inspire freedom and democracy. I'd hate to see him become a martyr in history books
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u/bennitori 12d ago edited 12d ago
He also deserves to live long enough to enjoy the peace he has given so much to preserve.
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u/I_like_trains_mkaay 12d ago
When they try to assassinate you so often you lose track of how many times.
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u/Steckie2 12d ago
"Five or six, can't remember, after the first one it becomes a routine.
Another assasination attempt? Must be Tuesday already....
They want to blow up the building? So tedious, i'm just in the middle of anti-corruption policy. Can they give me like 20 minutes so i can finish this page?"
It's really hard to imagine what it must be like to be the leader of a country being invaded and at having a giant target painted on your back. After a while i think you either accept the situation as your new routine or just crumble under the stress and give up.
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u/konq 12d ago
While at the same time, Zelensky is fighting against corruption within Ukraine. Crazy to me that you could be Ukrainian, see what's happening to your country in real-time, and then STILL take actions that would be a detriment your own country during a time of existential war.
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u/2vt4fbf683azmmcrvdrj 12d ago
Corruption during war time amounts to treason. Unfortunately traitors are not that rare.
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u/djamp42 12d ago
Definitely the strongest leader I ever remember in my lifetime.
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u/Brown_Panther- 12d ago
"Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."
Josip Tito to Stalin
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u/metricless 12d ago
Those are just the ones where the Russian assassin didn't give up, or get stuck in the mud somewhere! Real number must be orders of magnitude higher
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u/realblush 12d ago
Utterly in awe how he manages to hold up for such a long time in such a difficult war. Dude deserves the longest vacation ever after Ukraine wins the war.
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u/diazinth 12d ago
The whole fucking country does, but I guess he in particular yeah
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u/cubelith 12d ago
Speaking of deserving vacations - after the war ends and the situation stabilizes a bit, me and my friends are planning to go on vacation in Ukraine, spending money as if we were rich, giving exorbitant tips and the like. I'm sure anything will help, and I personally I'm really looking forward to tasting every variety of kvass there is, it's so good.
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u/tall_dark_strange 12d ago
"We're not sure about the guy who nearly ran me over, he might just have been a really bad driver."
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u/bjplague 12d ago
At this point Ryssia would have more to lose then to gain by killing big Z.
But then again they are stupid so they keep trying.
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u/YpsilonY 12d ago
Dear
JosephVladStop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second
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u/bennitori 12d ago
Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavian politician, circa 1940-1950 (I don't remember the exact year off hand.)
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u/TheToastyToad 12d ago
Realistically, what difference would it make if an attempt was successful. The Ukrainian people aren't going to accept a Russian backed puppet given the destruction they've caused. This campaign was and always will be a military one.
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u/Abdel_Zeist 12d ago
Today it might make less if a difference, early on in the war, the impact would have been huge because of how effectively Zelensky led the initial resistance.
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u/Alternative_Okra_856 12d ago
When Russia began preparing to invade his country this dude had two choices.
He could have easily fled to a developed country and left Ukraine to fight a true guerrilla war
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He could have used his status to rally as much support and attend as many conferences as possible to get western help for his people.
This guy is a hero for what he’s done and still doing. Ukraine seriously has the ability to develop considerably in the coming decades after the war.
A man who will be remembered without a doubt.
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u/Informal_Database543 12d ago
Russians might be good at assasinating other Russians but god they're awful at assasinating other countries leaders. Yugoslavia's Tito famously said to Stalin "Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them. If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second"
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u/Futueteipsum7 12d ago edited 12d ago
Just another Tuesday when a corrupt revanchist Chekist dictator with a history of state-sponsored wet-work rolls into your country and tries to make himself at home and you cordially invite him to go have intimate relations with himself and he spends the next year and a half trying to have you murdered.
Which of us hasn’t had that experience.
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u/Hayes4prez 12d ago
Zelenskyy is taller than Putin. That's what Putin hates the most.
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u/KingLeopard40063 12d ago
I swear they have to be the same height. But I think what really fucks with putin is that Zelenskyy has shown himself to be an actual badass compared to how putin pretends to be a tough guy. Notice how putin despite his tough guy image has barely even visited the frontlines of the war he started.
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u/BadScienceWorksForMe 12d ago
This guy is the real thing, I hope nothing but the very best for him and his family. I hope he can take some satisfaction in the idea that Putin by now has also survived at least a few assassination attempts by Putin’s forces. ;)
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u/Adonnus 12d ago
What's Tito's record? He's still got a while to go to beat the top scorer.
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u/DangerousPuhson 12d ago
I think the record is held by Fidel Castro, who has had several hundred attempts made against his life (mostly by the CIA, no less, not some post-Soviet crumbly KGB trash).
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u/danfromwaterloo 12d ago
"Stalin, stop sending people to kill me. We have already captured 5, one with a rifle and one with a bomb. If you don't stop sending people, I will send one to Moscow and I won't need to send another one" Josiph Broz Tito
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u/dontusethisforwork 12d ago
That should come as no surprise, I would think that Russia probably always has some assassination plot in the works at all times.
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u/mywerkaccount 12d ago
Sorry if it's a morbid question or one of bad taste but is there others in his footsteps that would be able to take his place if he were to be assassinated? And I don't mean someone just in his place by title but someone that has the same level of passion to keep the fight alive? Or does Ukraine's sovereignty die with him?
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u/sarcasm-o-rama 12d ago
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada is next in line - currently Ruslan Stefanchuk. Ukraine, like any other democratic country, has a firm line of succession outlined in its constitution.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Verkhovna_Rada
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u/mywerkaccount 12d ago
I understand there would be a succession in place. I guess I was just asking more about the character of the person that is to take his place, would he have the same affect in rallying the country and continuing the fight that Zelensky has?
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u/AstralAorion 12d ago
Honestly, it just goes to show that he is a true leader. He knows just how dangerous it is, but he's choosing to stay and lead his people because, for him, there is no alternative.
Mad respect.
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u/Sabre_One 12d ago
There is a really good interview were he describes how close Russians got to him during the initial invasion. He said they were all just in a room, and their security detail comes in and hands him and his cabinet rifles as they were not sure if they could hold off the Russians. Luckily they did, but the idea that you are giving your president a weapon because you don't know the outcome is crazy.
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u/Malikai009 12d ago
Man the KGB isnt what it used to be. Remember when they killed a guy with an umbrella gun that shot ricin pellets.
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u/coachhunter2 12d ago
One of Putin’s main aims when the war started was to kill Zelensky and install a pro Russia puppet. Apparently they also planned to kidnap and/or kill his family.
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u/TheJeffNeff 12d ago
zelensky still standing tall and strong is ALL the proof we will ever need that russia is a joke of a military operation. Weakness is loud
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u/zenivinez 12d ago edited 12d ago
What would happen if he was taken out? What is the resolve of the people without him at this point. Is there an acceptable line of succession? I have to say I am not confident another personality could so effectively cultivate such pride and unity in a people. Zelensky really does feel like a once in a lifetime figure. We are so use to profoundly horrid creatures putting on human masks and pretending to be humans that its so unbelievable to see an actual decent human in a position of power. Monsters are so effective at competing for and holding onto power because they have no humanity to gauge there actions or what entities they serve they will placate any keys that continue to lend them power.
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u/coccyxdynia 12d ago
It's sad that he will likely die before he grows old as you know the KGB will continue to hunt him down even after they lose the war.
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u/MaximusTheGreat 12d ago
While I'm sure Zelensky's security personnel is super highly trained, I have a feeling that Russia's assassins are probably of similar quality as the rest of their military "forces".
Spy pens where the poison doesn't deploy because the launching mechanism was pilfered for parts decades ago.
Tasers that haven't been charged in years. Getaway vehicles that need to be pushed up hills.
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u/TheDitz42 12d ago
No doubt there were more attempts that never got.close.enoigh to him to be noticed.
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u/RamblingSimian 12d ago
I wonder what would happen if he arranged for Putin to be assassinated... Would the Russians claim it was unfair, some sort of crime, even though they were trying the same thing? Would Putin's replacement stop the war? Since it appears Trump loves Putin, would the Republicans still support Russia even though Putin was gone? Would Russian citizens be happy to be rid of a tyrant, or would they decide they now have a reason to fight Ukraine?
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u/ouath 12d ago
I feel sorry for him and his family, even when he won't be president anymore and after the war, they will still have a constant target on their back, this is brutal.
A lot of people don't understand the moment he chose to stay and fight, it was for a lifetime sentence for him and his family.