The head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, claims that there was an assassination attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin after the outbreak of a full-scale war that began on February 24.

Kirill Budanov announced this in an interview for Ukrainian Pravda.

There were assassination attempts on Putin … there was even an assassination attempt on him, as they say, representatives of the Caucasus, not so long ago. This is non-public information. A completely unsuccessful assassination attempt, but it really took place … it was about 2 months ago. Once again, I say it was unsuccessful. There is no publicity about this event, but it was

Kirill Budanov