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UkrInform: 11 assassination attempts on Poroshenko prevented last year

Published Jan. 31, 2019 at 12:45 pm

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gives a speech during a meeting with his supporters in Kyiv on Jan. 29, 2019.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Eleven assassination attempts on the President of Ukraine were prevented last year.

“In 2018, about eleven assassination attempts on the President of Ukraine were prevented,” Chief of the State Guard Department Valeriy Heletey said in an interview with the UA: Ukrainian Radio.