Ukraine's parliamentary majority lauds the domestic security services, which have prevented an attack on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plotted in Odesa, while the opposition claims that the plot is a political act.
"I am glad that our security services have displayed their high professionalism," Party of Regions deputy Valeriy Konovaliuk told Interfax on Monday. He recalled that attacks on Putin had been planned before.
The lawmaker called for reconsidering the financing and modernization of the Ukrainian security services. "It would be appropriate to discuss not only structural transformations in our security services but also the efficiency of their financing and their needs," he said.
In turn, opposition deputy (the BYT-Batkivschyna faction), former first deputy head of the Ukrainian Security Service (1996-1999) Oleksandr Skybynetsky said that it was an election act.
"I think this is a political act orchestrated by Russia and timed to coincide with Putin’s election for president. A decision to publish such materials of security services is always political. The very fact of divulging this information – about the detentions and planned terror acts – is a political action," he told Interfax on Monday.
In his words, Ukraine played into Putin’s hands.
Russia’s Channel One said on Monday morning that Ukrainian and Russian security services had thwarted plans of terrorists who were planning an attack on Putin. The channel said that the suspects, who had been wanted internationally, were seized in Odesa. They confessed that they planned to make the attack immediately after the presidential election.
