2024-05-09 21:09:06
Pistorius wants to buy three rocket launchers from the USA and deliver them to Ukraine. Ukraine shells targets in Russia. All information in the news blog.
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Zelenskyj fires bodyguard boss after foiled assassination attempt
8:46 p.m.: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired the head of his bodyguard after a foiled assassination attempt. Zelensky publishes a decree on the “dismissal of Serhiy Leonidovich Rud from the post of head of the Department of State Security of Ukraine.” The decree does not give any reasons for the change in personnel in the highly sensitive post.
The Ukrainian domestic secret service SBU said on Tuesday that it had dismantled a “network of agents” controlled by the Russian secret service FSB who were “preparing the assassination of the Ukrainian president.” The group’s plans were aimed at recruiting soldiers from Zelensky’s security service in order to “take him hostage and kill him.” Two officers from Zelensky’s bodyguard were arrested on charges of passing secret information to Russia.
Pistorius announces purchase and delivery of Himars rocket launchers
7:10 p.m.: During his visit to the USA, Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) announced the delivery of three Himars rocket launcher systems to Ukraine. The rocket launchers came from the US armed forces “and are paid for by us,” said Pistorius after a meeting with his US colleague Lloyd Austin in Washington. The delivery takes place in cooperation with Washington.
Before his meeting with Austin, Pistorius visited the arms company Raytheon on Thursday, which produces, among other things, the Patriot air defense system. There he also spoke to management about the possible shortening of delivery times, he says. A new contract to purchase additional Patriots should be signed in the summer.
Hackers also bring Russian military parade to Ukrainian television
5:59 p.m.: Several Ukrainian and Latvian television channels unintentionally broadcast parts of the military parade from Red Square in Moscow after a hacker attack. In Ukraine, the media groups Star Light Media and Inter, public television and the channels Dym and Apostroph-TV were affected, writes the portal DT Media, which specializes in media reporting. In Latvia, according to the head of media supervision, Ivars Abolins, the program of the Internet and TV operator Balticom was affected.
Accordingly, the first hacker attack against Ukrainian media began right at the beginning of the military parade. The authorities in Kiev say the satellite signal was disrupted and the transmitters switched to a different type of transmission after a short time. However, there were further hacker attacks from Russia during the day. The authorities are launching an investigation. Ukraine, which has been waging a war of aggression for more than two years under Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, has fundamentally banned the broadcast of Russian programs.
G7 want to stay on the ball when it comes to fighting corruption in Ukraine
5:36 p.m.: The justice ministers of the G7 countries met in Venice to discuss the fight against corruption, the situation in Ukraine and joint efforts in the fight against organized crime. The two-day meeting is about strengthening Ukraine’s democratic institutions and preventing any form of unlawful use of money earmarked for reconstruction, according to the Italian hosts. In addition to Germany and Italy, the G7 group of leading democratic industrial nations also includes France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Canada and the USA.
“The issue of corruption is a three-fold problem for Ukraine,” said Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann to the German Press Agency on his flight to the lagoon city. Firstly, every euro that is lost in corruption instead of being spent on equipping soldiers weakens Ukraine in its defense against Russian aggression. Secondly, Ukraine has the goal of one day becoming a member of the European Union.