Ukrainian military officials told President Zlansky in the early hours of the war that Putin had sent a squad to capture him and form a pro-Russian government, but he chose to stay in Ukraine: “You understand they are watching you.” An intelligence officer in the Ukrainian army says that at the time, the president’s compound was broken into
Two months have passed since the start of the war between Ukraine and Russia, and in an interview given by President Zlansky last weekend he sheds some light on the first moments of the war.
In those early hours, senior state officials reported In the Ukrainian army, information was passed to Zalanski that Russian President Vladimir Putin had sent a squad to capture him. With the aim of forming an alternative pro-Russian government.
Despite this, Zelsky chose to stay in the country. He says in an interview with Time: “You understand that they are watching you, you are a symbol, you have to act as a head of state should act.”
“We woke them up, it was loud and there were explosions,” Zlansky said of the first bombings by the Russian army on the government compound where he and his family lived on February 24 – “The Triangle”. The Ukrainian president woke his wife and two children, and refused proposals from the United States and Britain to rescue him and his relatives from the country.
Oleksi Arstovich, an intelligence officer in the Ukrainian army, said of the fateful hours in Zalanski’s compound: “It was a complete madhouse. The place was wide open – we did not even have concrete blocks to close the street.”
Arstowitz added that Zalansky does not completely interfere in the decisions of army commanders: “He lets them conduct the fighting and in the same breath – stays in touch with them on a daily basis.”