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A Ukrainian was detained in the Czech Republic for preparing an assassination attempt on the President of Slovakia

2024-04-24

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Czech counterintelligence prevented an assassination attempt on the elected President of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini, which was planned to be carried out by 24-year-old Ukrainian citizen V. Marunich, the STK news agency reported on April 23.

As the publication says, the attacker, who is described as a mentally unstable and nationalist-minded person, was detained in the city of Brno in the southeast of the republic when he took weapons from a cache.

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The agency clarifies that Marunich V. is a native of Vinnitsa and has been in the Czech Republic since 2021. In 2021, he was detained in Ukraine for distributing child pornography and fraud.

The attacker came to the attention of Czech counterintelligence in December last year, the agency notes.

As Regnum reported, the Al Khaleej newspaper previously wrote that the election of Peter Pellegrini as president of Slovakia was a “political blow” for the United States, the EU and Ukraine, since Russian President Vladimir Putin had a new ally in Europe.

According to the newspaper's author, Kyiv has lost another ally, which provided it with military support worth $750 million between 2022 and 2023. The material emphasizes that, despite the fact that presidential powers in Slovakia are limited, Pellegrini is now the commander-in-chief of the Slovak army and has the right of veto in parliament.

After his election, Pellegrini said that he would do everything to ensure that Slovakia was always “on the side of peace, not war.” He also said that he would not allow the Slovak military to be sent to Ukraine.

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