Mercenaries sent to assassinate Zelensky

Wagner mercenaries enter Ukraine to 'assassinate Zelensky' after Putin 'personally ordered them to take him out', claims Ukrainian intelligence Wagner group men have been sent to Ukraine to assassinate President Zelensky Ukraine intelligence reports said prime minister, chief of staff among the targets Report claims mercenaries were sent 'personally' by the Russian President Putin  Latest in more than dozen attempts to assassinate Zelensky since the war began  Russian Wagner group mercenaries have travelled to Ukraine on a mission to assassinate Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky, intelligence reports claim.  Intelligence authorities attached to the Ministry of Defence said Russian President Vladimir Putin 'personally ordered another attack by one of his proxies', referring to the Wagner group.  'All previous attempts ended in the failure and elimination' of Wagner mercenaries at the hands of Ukrainian forces, the report added. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and the presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak were listed as among the other alleged assassination targets.  The Kremlin has long denied ties to the Wagner group, a 600-strong mercenary group deployed worldwide to carry out Moscow's dirty work.  Reports have long claimed the force is Putin's personal assassination squad, but are far enough removed from the Kremlin to afford the Russian president plausible deniability.   It is the latest in more than a dozen attempts by both the Wagner group and Chechen special forces to kill the Ukrainian president since Russian troops launched a savage invasion of Ukraine on February 24.