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Zelenskyy dismisses state guards chief over plot
Summary
A look back at the firing of Serhiy Rud after allegations that two guards were involved in a plot against the Ukrainian president.
What happened to the leadership of the body that protects Ukraine's president on 11 May 2024? Two days earlier, on 9 May 2024, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had fired Serhiy Rud, the head of the state guards.
The dismissal followed allegations that two members of the guards were involved in an assassination plot against Zelenskyy. The move put the spotlight on the unit responsible for the president's close protection, and on the question of how its own personnel could be implicated.
According to Ukrainian government officials and news sources, as later described, Zelenskyy has survived dozens of assassination and kidnapping attempts by Russian or pro-Russian agents during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Those accounts include at least three plots that were foiled by Ukrainian security services.
By 11 May 2024, the firing of Rud stood as the most visible consequence of the allegations against the two guards.
