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With a few hours after the reported incident involving the motorcade of Ukraine President Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s limousine was attacked in an alleged “assassination attempt” amid Moscow’s raging war against Ukraine, raising speculation over the security in Moscow, a report said.
According to the report by General SVR, a Russian Telegram channel, Putin’s limousine was allegedly hit by a “a loud bang from the left front wheel followed by heavy smoke”, but the Russian President was unharmed, Mirror.co.uk reported.
The channel said that the President was returning to his official residence in a decoy or “backup” motorcade consisting of five armoured cars, with Putin in the third. However, the date of the incident was not revealed.
The anti-Kremlin news channel said, “On the way to the residence, a few kilometres away, the first escort car was blocked by an ambulance, the second escort car drove around without stopping [despite] sudden obstacle, and during the detour of the obstacle”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
“The head of the President’s bodyguard (service) and several other people have been suspended and are in custody… A narrow circle of people knew about the movement of the president in this cortege, and all of them were from the presidential security service. After the incident, three of them disappeared. These were exactly the people who were in the first car of the motorcade. Their fate is currently unknown. The car on which they were traveling was found empty a few kilometres from the incident,” General SVR channel said.
Without providing details, General SVR said more information on the supposed attack was “classified”, reports Mirror.co.uk. Ironic, but a similar report is making round from Ukraine that an attempt was made on President Zelensky‘s motorcade with out details on the date or venue about it.
